{"product_id":"book-nt4b","title":"Look Homeward, Angel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDazzlingly rich, lyrical, and elegiac, Thomas Wolfe’s vibrant autobiographical first novel,\u003cem\u003e Look Homeward, Angel\u003c\/em\u003e, follows the story of Eugene Gant, the ninth and last child born to alcoholic Oliver and go-getting Eliza in the fictional town of Altemont, based on Wolfe’s hometown of Asheville, North Carolina.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel recounts Eugene’s early life, up to his departure from home at the age of nineteen. A brilliant and restless young man struck by family tragedy, Eugene possesses a great imagination and voracious appetite for experience, which give him a burning desire to leave his tumultuous small-town life in search of something better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Wolfe’s epic narrative—poetic and rhapsodic, brimming with joy, existential terror, and rage—had an earth-shattering effect on the literary landscape of America in the early twentieth-century, raising him up alongside legendary writers of the American South, such as William Faulkner and Flannery O’Conner.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naxos","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49877270593840,"sku":"BDnt4b","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/741762-nt4b-Square.jpg?v=1749338061","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-nt4b","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}