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The Hills Beyond

by Thomas Wolfe
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Overview

When Thomas Wolfe died in 1938, he left behind reams of unpublished manuscripts. With careful handling by his editor, Max Perkins, that material became two of his best-known novels, The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again. What remained eventually formed a superb selection of Wolfe's finest short stories into The Hills Beyond.

Wolfe stands among our nation's greatest writers, a figure whose stylish prose was admired by William Faulkner and honored by Jack Kerouac. The collection includes: "The Lost Boy," "Chickamauga," "The Lion at Morning," "No Cure for It," "The Return of the Prodigal Son," "God's Lonely Man," and "The Hills Beyond."

Synopsis

This wonderful and compelling collection of stories and character sketches contains some of the finest Wolfe ever wrote.

New York Times Book Review

The Hills Beyond would, I think, have surpassed in creative power these other four [novels] on which Wolfe's reputation must rest How great a pity that he did not live to finish it!

About the Author, Thomas Wolfe

A larger than life figure -- like his contemporary, Ernest Hemingway -- Thomas Wolfe embodied a particularly American vision of the restless and eager writer, taking in the totality of his life experience and turning it into a gigantic, unwieldy vision in prose. With the publication of his semiautobiographical Look Homeward, Angel in 1929, Wolfe announced his dramatic entrance on the stage of modern fiction; but an early death made his exit sadly premature.

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New York Times Book Review

The Hills Beyond would, I think, have surpassed in creative power these other four [novels] on which Wolfe's reputation must rest…How great a pity that he did not live to finish it!

Book Details

Published
June 1, 2000
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pages
348
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780807125670

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