The Hills Beyond (1941)

by Thomas Wolfe

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Thomas Wolfe's last book, a posthumously published assemblage from his collected writings after he died at 37 of pneumonia. Much of the material is of varying quality and covers various generations of the Gant, Webber and Joyner families from his earlier novels. The second half is a novella, "The Hills Beyond", of which the last story (and the splendid ending) are the best of the book. Up to that point I was fairly disappointed by how little the renditions of old family feuds intrigued me, and was wondering what I had ever seen in Thomas Wolfe in high school. That last page reminded me. (

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1941

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George Webber

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0807125679, Paperback)

This wonderful and compelling collection of stories and character sketches contains some of the finest Wolfe ever wrote.

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The unfinished novel from which this collection of sketches, stories, and novellas takes its title was Wolfe's final effort. It tells the story of the Joyner family, George Webber's maternal ancestors, in pre - Civil War North Carolina and illustrates Wolfe's fine sense of family traits rooted in a traceable past. "Chickamauga" is the superb Civil War tale that Wolfe received from his great-uncle; "The Lost Boy" renders a second, more tender treatment of the death of young Grover Gant; and "The Return of the Prodigal" describes Eugene Gant's imagined and then actual revisit to Altamont when he is a famous author.… (more)