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 childhoodaway from all the strife and conflict of the worldback home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time. 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. 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. 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.
Driven by dreams of literary success! George Webber has left his provincial hometown to make his name as a writer in New York City. A 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 II. Zusammenfassung 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 twentieth century literature. Perennial Classics editions include updated author biographies and a history of the book's publication. Klappentext Now available in an all-new HarperPerennial Classics edition Thomas Wolfe's YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN tells the poignant story of a successful novelist, ostracized by family and friends, who subsequently embarks on a world-wide search for his own identity and personal renewal. Wolfe created his legacy as a classic American novelist with Look Homeward, Angel Of Time and the River A Stone, a Leaf, a Door and From Death to Morning. He taught English at New York University and traveled extensively in Europe and America.
New York Times Book Review Informationen zum Autor Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) was educated at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. Zusatztext You Can't Go Home Again will stand apart from everthing else that 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.
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