Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe)

Book Reviews 
Language as rich and ambitious and intensely American as any of our novelists has ever accomplished.
Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain)

Look Homeward, Angel is one of the most important novels of my life. . . . It's a wonderful story for any young person burning with literary ambition, but it also speaks to the longings of our whole lives; I'm still moved by Wolfe's ability to convey the human appetite for understanding and experience.
Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian)

Wolfe made it possible to believe that the stuff of life, with all its awe and mystery and magic, could by some strange alchemy be transmuted to the page.
William Gay (The Long Home)

As so many other American boys had before and have since, I discovered a version of myself in Look Homeward, Angel, and I became intoxicated with the elevated, poetic prose.
Robert Morgan (Gap Creek)