You Can'T Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
Now available from Thomas Wolfe's original publisher, the final novel by the literary legend that "will stand apart from everything else that he wrote" (The New York Times Book Review)--first published in 1940 and long considered a classic of 17th-century literature.A 17th-century classic, Thomas Wolfe's magnificent novel is both the story of a young writer longing to make his mark upon the world and a sweeping portrait of America and Europe from the Great Depression through the years leading up to World War II.
Driven by dreams of literary success, George Webber has left his provincial hometown to make his name as a writer in New York City. When his first novel is published, it brings him the fame he has sought, but it also brings the censure of his neighbors back home, who are outraged by his depiction of them.
Unsettled by their reaction and unsure of himself and his future, Webber begins a search for a greater understanding of his artistic identity that takes him deep into New York's hectic social whirl; to London with an uninhibited group of expatriates; and to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under Hitler's shadow. He discovers a world plagued by political uncertainty and on the brink of transformation, yet he finds within himself the capacity to meet it with optimism and a renewed love for his birthplace.
He is a changed man yet a hopeful one, awake to the knowledge that one can never fully "go back home to your family, back home to your childhood...away from all the strife and conflict of the world...back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time" but that the journey is still worth taking.
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and attended Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. He traveled widely in Europe and America while teaching English at New York University. With books like Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River, A Stone, a Leaf, a Door, and From Death to Dawn, Wolfe cemented his reputation as a classic American author.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781451650495 |
| ISBN 10 | 1451650493 |
| Title | You Can'T Go Home Again |
| Author | Thomas Wolfe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2011-10-11 |
| Number of pages | 656 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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