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...vanished, and farmers shared tree trunks with cobras in the worst floods since 1871. In the coastal state of Orissa, eight rivers thundered simultaneously into spate, killing at least 150, inundating 3,500 sq. mi. of drought-seared cropland. The state's 138 legislators dropped everything and rushed homeward to find out their families' fate...
...East Germany, the homeward-bound Russians exuded more of their roly-poly amiability. Khrushchev, smiling hugely, pronounced Geneva a success because "both sides won the conviction that neither side wants...
...ease, it swept by stages across the American continent and its time zones. It hopped to Chicago, where diners looked out at Lake Michigan. It came down to an Iowa farm, where the cows were just getting in from pasture. It moved on to Denver, where office workers were homeward bound, jumped to Salt Lake City on the other side of the Rockies and on to the Pacific, swelling with awesome beauty in the setting sun. This cross-continental panorama of a nation, simultaneously caught at work and play within the same bracket of time, had the impact and immediacy...
Rubin praises only one of Wolfe's four completed novels unequivocally, and that is Look Homeward, Angel. Autobiographical like all this completed novels, Look Homeward Angel treats the first twenty years of Wolfe's life. In his concluding paragraph, Rubin states that Look Homeward, Angel "is a novel, composed of memories stored up when the rememberer 'saw things whole', and saw them in depth . . . The first novel . . . was the unified and successive record of moments in which the author felt the sensation of stopping chronological time and transcend physical place...
...most often transcended the limitations of his being. In his concept of home, Wolfe's mother and father have a dominant role. His mother, despite her avarice, seemed to signify to Wolfe the durability and fertility of the earth itself, while his father--the W. O. Gant of Look Homeward, Angel, is the "Far Wanderer," the forever unsatisfied, Odysseus-like figure. Between these two forces, Wolfe saw himself poised, and his continual efforts to formularize these stresses into a concerted philosophy mark many of the conflicts which rage in his works...