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. ( )