Product Description

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"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #433278 in Books
• Published on: 1998-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 720 pages

Customer Reviews

Fourth and last of Wolfe's brilliant novels.
This is the fourth, and last, of Wolfe's novels - which together make up a chronological account of his own life, although all under pseudonyms. They were the only novels he ever wrote, and are all an utter delight to read. They can all be read separately, they don't really work as a series in the proper sense of the word - but once you get hooked on Wolfe, you'll want to read them all. "You Can't go Home Again" is his best, in my opinion, and consists of several anecdotes, or short stories, which together make up a beautifully written, heart-achingly fine novel. This is the kind of stuff to make you want to run out on the street and tell people you love them. Passionately recommended.