Look Homeward, Angel
Americannoun
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Thomas Wolfe, writing in Look Homeward, Angel of “blistered varnished wood” and “fat limp underdone bacon,” could also have said “varnished blistered wood” or “limp fat underdone bacon.”
From Slate • Aug. 6, 2014
Burn all high school yearbooks, tell loathsome lies to old roommates who telephone after 20 years, on pain of black despair avoid sentimental journeys to childhood beer gardens, and never, never reread Look Homeward, Angel.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His autobiographical novel Look Homeward, Angel was a sensation, and the title of his third book, You Can't Go Home Again, became a rallying cry.
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It could not be, and in a certain sense the play is not Look Homeward, Angel at all.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Naked Lunch by Burroughs and Look Homeward, Angel by Wolfe were a good start.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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