Look Homeward, Angel

Thomas Wolfe

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Eugene Gant grows up in the mountain town of Altamont, the youngest son of a stonecutter who drinks and a mother who buys property, and hungers from childhood for a larger life than the boarding house can hold. Wolfe's autobiographical first novel (1929).