Pat Controy - Thomas Wolfe
This is the first and only edition of Thomas Wolfe by Pat Conroy. Published in an edition of 250 numbered and signed copies, it is signed by Conroy and Barry Moser who has drawn an engraving of Thomas Wolfe with Pat Conroy.
From Thomas Wolfe by Pat Conroy:
“Gene Norris gave me a copy of “Look Homeward, Angel” as a Christmas
present that December and his generous gift was a permanent and
life-changing one indeed. “I think you are now ready for the many
pleasures of Thomas Wolfe”, he wrote in the book, the first ever
inscribed to me by another human being. The book’s impact on me was so
viscerally powerful that I consider the reading of it as one of the
pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest,
knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful
reading of world literature, and I consider myself a small-time
aficionado of wonderful first and last pages. The book itself took full
possession of me in a way no book has before or since with the possible
exception of Of Time and the River. I read it from cover to cover three
straight times, transfigured by the mesmerizing, dazzling hold of the
narrator’s voice as I took in and fed on the awesome power of the long
line. I realized that breathing and the written word were intimately
connected to each other as I stepped into the bracing streams of Thomas
Wolfe and could hear the waterfalls forming in the cliffs that lay
invisible beyond me. I kept catching myself holding my breath as I read
Look Homeward Angel.
You might enjoy these other titles by Pat Conroy: The Boo, The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, Beach Music, My Losing Season.
Also, check out these other Southern authors: Anne Rivers Siddons, Cassandra King, and Terry Kay.
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