456 pages, frontispiece (portrait), cloth, very good in very good dust jacket. From the Oxford Paperback Encyclopedia, 'Thomas (Clayton) Wolfe, (1900 - 1938) US novelist. He gave up his teaching post at New York University after the success of his first, autobiographical novel Look Homeward Angel (1929). His intense, romantic works dwell idealistically on the USA. Many, including the short-story collection The Hills Beyond (1941), were published posthumously, following his death from a brain tumour.'

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