Look Homeward, Angel

Description

An elaborate and moving coming-of-age story about Eugene Gant, a restless and energetic character whose passion to experience life takes him from his small, rural hometown in North Carolina to Harvard University and the city of Boston. The novel's pattern is artfully simple--a small town, a large family, high school and college--yet the characters are monumental in their graphic individuality and personality.

First Sentence

A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the cock, and the soft stone smile of an angel, is touched by that dark miracle of chance which makes new magic in a dusty world.

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Other Editions

• Look Homeward, AngelHardcoverScribner1977-08-01
• Look Homeward, AngelHardcoverCharles Scribner's Sons1957-01-01
• Look Homeward AngelPaperbackScribner Paper Fiction1957-01-01
• Look homeward angelCharles Scribners' Sons1957-01-01
• Look Homeward, AngelLibrary BindingTandem Library1995-10-01
• Look Homeward, AngelScribner1997-01-01