Welcome to Our City: A Play in Ten Scenes

by Thomas Wolfe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807125032
• ISBN13: 9780807125038
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.6"