{"product_id":"you-can-t-go-home-again-book-thomas-wolfe-9781789432022","title":"You Can't Go Home Again","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow available from Thomas Wolfe's original publisher, the final novel by the literary legend, that will stand apart from everything else that he wrote (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)--first published in 1940 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an Introduction by Gail Godwin \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA twentieth-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 I. Upon the publication of \u003ci\u003eYou Can't Go Home Again \u003c\/i\u003ein 1940, two years after Wolfe's death, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003edeclared that it will stand apart from everything else that he wrote because this is the book of a man who had come to terms with himself, who was on his way to mastery of his art, who had something profoundly important to say. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDriven 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51052114870545,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51052117590289,"sku":"NIN9781789432022","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1789432022.jpg?v=1750801834","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/you-can-t-go-home-again-book-thomas-wolfe-9781789432022","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}