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

You Can't Go Home Again Paperback | Pages: 711 pages

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

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Ratings: 4.04 From 4389 Users | 302 Reviews

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"You Can't Go Home Again," was the first Thomas Wolfe book I read probably because I liked the title, or maybe it was the only one in the bookstore, but for whatever reason it was the one handed down to me, though Thomas Wolfe's novels often feel like one long book, though they do have different moods and feelings. I first read Wolfe because I knew he was a big influence on Jack Kerouac and I wanted to be a writer, inspired by the Beats in spirit, and thought I had to read a lot of good books

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.

At page 454, I am abandoning this text, at least for a while. *You Can't Go Home Again* is such an influential work, especially within American literature, that I had to continually remind myself that what struck me as "old hat" or cliche, was, in all reality, fairly innovative; the passages that reminded me of Kerouac, were, in fact, the passages that inspired Kerouac. This work has some exceptionally beautiful and affecting passages--I'm thinking, most recently in my reading, of the suicide

I'd forgotten about this till it came up in the quiz.My senior year of high school, I had some sort of comp lit class, and we had to do a major paper on one book, and I did it on this.And my paper was all about the theme of interlocking webs of some sort. I think 3 layers of, um, webbing.. like himself; his community; and the country or something. I'll have to look it up again. I really liked it, enjoyed the complexity, and felt a certain resonance because going home was exactly what I planned

If there has been a perfect writer it was Thomas Wolfe. A writer who can describe emotions, feelings, people and places in a way that the reader would live through every sentence written in his books. Wolfe writes and when they laughed, there was no warmth or joy in the sound: high, shrill, ugly, and hysterical, their laughter only asked the earth to notice them and you can imagine, understand and see those people described by one sentence. Or he can describe a persons gaze by an inner monologue

What an incredible book. Wolfe is extraordinarily insightful and is a keen observer of human nature. He rambles quite a bit and goes off on all sorts of tangents, but the prose is so strong that in the end I didn't mind that so much. Probably some people would lose patience with that. From a lesser writer, I know I would have.I actually bought this book some years ago and it had just been sitting on my bookshelf (this happens to me often because I often buy books faster than II can finish

This is a book you have to commit to reading, but it is also a book that presents the great, great talent of Thomas Wolfe. He became my literary hero with this book, published after he left us in 1938. I call him the poet novelist. His words are poetry placed within the story of his life. If you are a writer, or reader interested in world-class writing talent, I strongly recommend you read this book.