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ISBN:	0060930055 (ISBN13: 9780060930059)
Edition Language:	English

You Can't Go Home Again

Thomas Wolfe

Paperback | Pages: 711 pages

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Title	:	You Can't Go Home Again
Author	:	Thomas Wolfe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 711 pages
Published	:	August 5th 1998 by Harper Perennial (first published 1940)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics

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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.

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Faulkner called Wolfe the best of their generation, "the finest failure." I admire most the scope of Wolfe's writing. It seems at times that he was trying to capture all of America in a single novel, and if he didn't quite make it he comes very, very close. And he was, at his heart, hopeful: Wolfe believed in the possibility of religious transcendence and he believed in America, and the possibilities it had. Those twin optimisms, to me, lie at the heart of the very best moments of this novel.

Thomas Wolfe (NOT TOM WOLFE!) is from Asheville, NC. I was in Asheville when I bought this book, and it was later that day...still in Asheville...that I got appendicitis. So I have that association.Anyway, I started reading this book while recovering and just now finished...that was around May 15th I guess, and its now September 4rd, so that's roughly 110 days...and the book is 704 pages so that's almost 7 pages a day. Hm.My point is, this is a long, long book but I've never read so feverishly,

Re: _You Can't Go Home Again _ (1940) By Thomas Wolfe(I read to page 195 but did not finish the book.)Added 3/1/11.This is very dense reading, but I was floored by its beauty. I copied the following quote by hand, before the days of computers:=========================== "Some things will never change. Some things will always be the same. Lean down your ear upon the earth and listen. "The voice of forest water in the night, a woman's laughter in the dark, the clean, hard rattle of raked gravel,

Written in 1934, nothing has changed. People still fall in love, get hurt, have dreams, kill, lie and cheat. There was a total lack of respect for the earth then as now. Overbuilding and greed were rampant then, no worse and not better than now. Greed drives need.Still, a good story of hope, perseverance and victory of the spirit.

The paperback version of this novel is 711 pages long. This novel is a saga about George Webber, a prototype for the author, Thomas Wolfe. The novel depicts events at least three levels: George Webber's struggle to write novels and gain acceptance by other novelists and publishers; America's transformation from the go-go 20's to economic ruin and depression in the 1930's; and how Webber seeks salvation by sailing to England and Germany in the mid 1930's, a few years before the start of World War

I love the way books come to me sometimes - this one as a yellowed, tattered edition sold at a market stall for €1. I've wanted to read it for ages. The text is very dense but Wolfe's eye is keen, especially when it comes to observations about people, though I feel like his judgements can be a bit arrogant and unkind here and there. Still, I feel like this book merits recommended reading status, especially for a girl like me, who mislaid her ruby slippers somewhere along the road, sometime back.

I was hooked from the first page and really savored the whole 700+ page experience. Wolfe is spookily insightful, cutting right to the quick of human nature, and our many pretentions. Wolfe describes so many different types of people and you recognize every one. The book has a very timeless quality to it. From overspeculation in the real estate market to the media's bizarre fixation with celebrities... this book could have been written yesterday, and yet it was written in the 1930's. Wolfe's