You Can't Go Home Again (Modern Classics) - Softcover

Wolfe, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140065776 ISBN 13: 9780140065770

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1984

Synopsis

George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that town he is shaken by the force of the outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and friends feel naked and exposed by the truths they have seen in his book, and their fury drives him from his home. He begins a search for his own identity that takes him to New York and a hectic social whirl; to Paris with an uninhibited group of expatriates; to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under Hitler's shadow. At last Webber returns to America and rediscovers it with love, sorrow, and hope.

"If there stills lingers and doubt as to Wolfe's right to a place among the immortals of American letters, this work should dispel it."
-- "Cleveland News"

"Wolfe wrote as one inspired. No one of his generation had his command of language, his passion, his energy."
-- "The New Yorker"

" "You Can't Go Home Again" 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 has something profoundly important to say."
-- "New York Times Book Review"

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Review:

"If there still lingers any doubt as to Wolfe's right to a place among the immortals of American letters, this work should dispel it."

-- Cleveland News

"If there still lingers any doubt as to Wolfe's right to a place among the immortals of American letters, this work should dispel it."-- "Cleveland News""Wolfe wrote as one inspired. No one of his generations has his command of lanuage, his passion, his energy."-- "The New Yorker"""You Can't Go Home Again" 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 porfoundly important to say."-- "New York Times Book Review"

""You Can't Go Home Again" will stand apart from everthing else that [Wolfe] wrote because this is the book of a man who had come to terms with himself, who was on his wa to mastery of his art, who had something profoundly important to say." -"New York Times Book Review"

"Wolfe wrote as one inspired. No one in his generation had his command of language, his passion, his energy." --Clifton Fadiman, "The New Yorker"

About the Author:

Thomas Wolfe was born in North Carolina in 1900. His mother ran a boarding house and his father a gravestone business; Wolfe was the youngest of their eight children. His first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, was published in 1929, followed by Of Time and the River in 1935, both heavily revised by his influential editor, Max Perkins. Wolfe died in 1938 from tuberculosis, aged thirty-seven.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0140065776
• ISBN 13: 9780140065770
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688