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The real estate promoters and civic leaders of Altamont, a small Southern town, attempt to buy up the Black owned central district, evict those people from their homes, and establish a new white residential section
160 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 1983
About the author
Thomas Wolfe
424 books1,168 followersPeople best know American writer Thomas Clayton Wolfe for his autobiographical novels, including
Look Homeward, Angel
(1929) and the posthumously published
You Can't Go Home Again
(1940).
Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels and many short stories, dramatic works and novellas. He mixed highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. Wolfe wrote and published books that vividly reflect on American culture and the mores, filtered through his sensitive, sophisticated and hyper-analytical perspective. People widely knew him during his own lifetime.
Wolfe inspired the works of many other authors, including Betty Smith with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Robert Morgan with Gap Creek; Pat Conroy, author of Prince of Tides, said, "My writing career began the instant I finished Look Homeward, Angel." Jack Kerouac idolized Wolfe. Wolfe influenced Ray Bradbury, who included Wolfe as a character in his books.
(from Wikipedia)
Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels and many short stories, dramatic works and novellas. He mixed highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. Wolfe wrote and published books that vividly reflect on American culture and the mores, filtered through his sensitive, sophisticated and hyper-analytical perspective. People widely knew him during his own lifetime.
Wolfe inspired the works of many other authors, including Betty Smith with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Robert Morgan with Gap Creek; Pat Conroy, author of Prince of Tides, said, "My writing career began the instant I finished Look Homeward, Angel." Jack Kerouac idolized Wolfe. Wolfe influenced Ray Bradbury, who included Wolfe as a character in his books.
(from Wikipedia)
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October 29, 2022
It was interesting and humorous in a lot of ways; however, despite his attempts to in some way to mock the elites and sympathize with the African Americans, I found Wolf's stereotyping and denigration of African Americans appalling. Given that he was trying to portray himself as above the ignorance of his early 20th century southern roots and the rampant racism that came with it, the tired excuse of "being a product of his times" doesn't work for me. If he was any better than the people he was trying to condemn in this play, it was not by a wide margin
September 21, 2022
I love Wolfe, I love (long) plays, and I love panoramic city narratives, so this might as well have been written just for me. A great experience.
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