Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

July's book was suggested by Carla and accepted without a vote because it's her last book club with us before she moves to St. Louis so she could pick whatever she wanted.

544 pages, only one copy at IndyPL.

This is a book that Carla has wanted to read for awhile, it looks pretty nifty being a semi-fictionalized-autobiography published in 1929. We tend to like coming of age stories and also historical America semi-fiction - hopefully will be a good one.

This will be a good training for Carla to lead a book club since I will be out of town for a wedding in Fort Worth.

From Goodreads:
Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American Bildungsroman. The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself. The novel covers the span of time from Gant's birth to the age of 19. The setting is the fictional town and state of Altamont, Catawba, a fictionalization of his home town, Asheville, North Carolina. Playwright Ketti Frings wrote a theatrical adaptation of Wolfe's work in a 1957 play of the same title.
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Interested in suggesting a book? Bring it up to me at a meeting (or after by Meetup messages) and we can talk about it, if it sounds like it will fit I will add it to the list to be voted on by the group. There are some genre, content and page length restrictions but we're down to give most things a shot.

I have made a Google Doc that people can view to publicize the current set of suggestions see my notes on them. I've included an introduction to make it clear what I look for, how I suggest books and how to interact with the system.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bpxyKJlZC08MduYEdX8_uOBWu_FpIqJh2NxwFsMHfIA/edit?usp=sharing