Look Homeward, Angel
by Ketti Frings, Thomas Wolfe

Look Homeward, Angel Book Cover
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Highlights

1910s/WWI Unit Set/Multiple Settings Period Costumes

Awards & Recognition

Drama Critics Circle Pulitzer Prize

Winner! 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! Best American Play - 1957-58 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award

Synopsis

An authentic American classic, this powerful and vital play captures the sardonic humor and the grief, both private and universal, of Wolfe's novel about a youth coming of age.

Concentrating on the last third of Wolfe's story, the play vividly portrays Eugene Gant, his mother, who is obsessed by her material holdings and who maintains barriers against the love of her family, his father, a stonecutter imprisoned by his failures, and the brother who never breaks away.

Press Reviews

"One of the finest plays in American dramatic literature."

— The New York Post

Characters

Character
Mrs. Marie "Fatty" Pert
Helen Gant Barton
Hugh Barton
Eliza Gant
Will Pentland
Eugene Gant
Jake Clatt
Mrs. Clatt
Florry Mangle
Mrs. Snowden
Mr. Farrel
Miss Brown
Laura James
W.O. Gant
Dr. Maguire
Tarkinton
Madame Elizabeth
Luke Gant
Ben Gant

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573611728
ISBN-10 0573611726

Look Homeward, Angel is a play written by Ketti Frings and published by Samuel French .

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