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Part 3, Chapter 32 Summary. Eugene enters his second year at university and rooms with an eager Altamont boy named Bob Sterling. Bob becomes ill and is forced to return home, where he soon dies. Eugene moves into a new dormitory with two older students. The doctor gives Gant a fatal prognosis, and Helen brings him home.
Thomas Wolfe. Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American Bildungsroman. The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself. The novel covers the span of time from Gant's birth to the age of 19.
Feb 25, 1972 · Look Homeward, Angel: Directed by Paul Bogart. With Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Colby, Ronny Cox, Charles Durning. The life of a young man growing up in a small town in the mountains of North Carolina during the early part of the twentieth century, based on Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical novel.
A thinly disguised autobiography and a portrait of the early twentieth-century American South, Look Homeward, Angel is the most famous book of an author who used to be regarded as an equal of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner. Published in New York in 1929, Thomas Wolfe's novel was considered striking and important—a ...
Part 2, Chapter 18 Summary. Eugene continues to grow out of childhood and boyishness; “he sank deeper year by year into the secret life, a strange wild thing bloomed darkly in his face” (193). Helen, driven to dominate and control, becomes frustrated with Eugene’s withdrawal into himself. Helen’s frustration reveals how she is ...
The stage play of Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings had a run of 554 performances on Broadway. It won both the New York Drama Critics Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for 1958 and starred ...
Part 1, Chapter 8 Summary. Eugene is six now and is going to school. He is fond of books, and Eliza and Gant both take credit for his intelligence. He does well at school, learning quickly to read and write. Eliza clings to his babyhood, refusing to cut his hair, even though he is teased about it. He and a friend write obscenities in their ...
