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The University of South Carolina Press is celebrating Wolfe's centenary in grand style with the release of this brace of volumes. Few books in American literature are as shackled to misinformation as 1929's Look Homeward, Angel, with its false legend of a manuscript that could fill everything from a truck to an attic. That ponderous sheaf, in fact, was slightly more than 1100 pagesDroughly six inches of paper. To make it more marketable, the manuscript was winnowed down by the House of Scribner into the book the public long has known. Renowned literary scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli and wife Arlyn have reestablished the text from the carbon copy of the original typescript and Wolfe's handwritten manus...Log In or Sign Up to Read More