You Can't Go Home Again - Hardcover

Wolfe, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849026572 ISBN 13: 9781849026574

Publisher: Benediction Classics, 2010

Synopsis

This classic of American literature tells the story of George Webber, a rising novelist, who returns to his hometown only to face a wave of hatred and rejection from the inhabitants, who feel his latest work ridicules their way of life. George goes into exile, first in New York, then London and continental Europe, living life to the full but burdened by the belief that he can never return to his roots. This work, although published posthumously and heavily edited from Wolfe's surviving manuscripts, has done much to confirm his place as one of the leading American novelists of the 20th Century. This handsome new edition from Benediction Classics includes the full unabridged text of the published version. Visit Benediction Classics at www.thebestthathasbeensaid.com to read thousands of free classic books online, or buy them in elegant paperback and hardback editions at reasonable prices.

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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"

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Benediction Classics
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849026572
• ISBN 13: 9781849026574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 774