Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life (The First Edition Library)

New York: First Edition Library / Collectors Reprints, Inc, 1990. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 7x5x2. Includes publisher's slipcase and insert. Jacket slightly wrinkled from previous owner applying mylar cover too tightly (now removed), minor blemishes to slipcase. 1990 Hard Cover. vii, [1], 626, [4] pp. 8vo. Facsimile edition of the Scribner original. Inspiration for the 1972 television film. "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. The setting is the fictional town and state of Altamont, Catawba, which is considered to be a not-so-subtle mirror of his hometown, Asheville, North Carolina. Playwright Ketti Frings wrote a theatrical adaptation of Wolfe's work in a 1957 play of the same title.