The Relationship Between Parents and Children in My Childhood

When I think of the prose of Thomas Wolfe, it's like an overly handled crust or something. Overly attended to overdone, he puts too many words into a short phrase that could have a quicker, speedier, more precise passage. But for them he represented something stylistically new at that time. Did your parents recommend that you read certain books or did they kind of let you follow your own course through their library? Like the relationship between parents and children in my childhood was very hands off.I don't even really remember having conversations with them about books. And both my parents worked and they were gone a lot and my brother and I were alone. So it's just you were