Welcome to Our City: A Play in Ten Scenes by Wolfe, Thomas - 1999

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Paperback / softback. New. In 1920 Thomas Wolfe left the South with the strong desire to become a dramatist. To pursue his chosen craft, he enrolled in the Harvard 47 Workshop, at that time the most renowned in the nation. At first he wrote plays about Appalachian society and the Civil War. But it was not until Wolfe turned to the modern South, inspired by a disturbing return to his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, that his genius awoke. There he found the material he would work into the best of his three full-length plays written at Harvard, the material that in the next decade would be recast into the novels that would make him famous. This is the first book publication of Welcome to Our City, Thomas Wolfe's play in ten scenes of a modern South ruled by liars and real estate agents, overrun with boosterism, and dedicated to greed. This sprawling, fiery work has lain dormant among Wolfe's papers for over fifty years, abandoned by its author after an unsuccessful attempt to revise and… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.

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LSU Press, 1999-03-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!