Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, in this elegant Easton Press edition (1992), is a sprawling, semi-autobiographical novel that captures the tumult of youth and the ache of belonging. Wolfe’s lyrical prose follows Eugene Gant, a restless young man growing up in the fictional town of Altamont (modeled on Wolfe’s Asheville, North Carolina), as he grapples with family strife, artistic longing, and the search for identity in early 20th-century America.
Bound in Easton Press’s signature full leather with 22-karat gold accents, silk moiré endpapers, and archival paper, this edition mirrors the novel’s raw emotional power and Southern Gothic grandeur. Wolfe’s torrential language—alternately poetic and torrential—paints a portrait of America itself: vast, hungry, and haunted by unfulfilled dreams.
“O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.” —The novel’s famous lament, now gilt-stamped for eternity.
For readers moved by Wolfe’s epic:
- You Can’t Go Home Again (Wolfe’s sequel, equally thunderous).
- A Death in the Family (Agee’s lyrical Southern elegy).
- East of Eden (Steinbeck’s generational saga with similar mythic scope).
A masterpiece of American modernism, preserved as both literature and artifact.
