The autobiographical novel “Look at Home, Angel” published in 1929 is an astonishing kaleidoscope of Thomas Wolfe’s vivid memories of his childhood and youth: his homeland—Asheville, North Carolina—hidden in the text under the fictional name Altamont; the time of his parents’ union and their eventual breakup, and the complicated relationships among its members; and the first steps of a person into the vast and frightening world.