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

You Can't Go Home Again

Thomas Wolfe

Paperback | Pages: 711 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 4389 Users | 302 Reviews

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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	:	Special 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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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

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,

This is a quiet 10 year epic odyssey, and you'll know that's true when I tell you that it essentially starts with Black Tuesday, 1929, and ends just before the start of WWII, 1939, with stops in North Carolina, Brooklyn, London, Paris and Berlin. The uni-directional quality struck me as pretty cool, by the end, (and which of course ties in to the title and its multiple meanings, including the fact of constant social change.) We also meet many characters and they don't necessarily make a repeat

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.

The title is wonderful. The prose is long and seems dated. This is a very slow read but does capture a period of turmoil in the 20th century. I read it for a book group years ago, and often cursed the member who suggested it. My recollection was that we had to skip a month and most members of the group didn't finish it.

It deserves the title "classic" in every sense of the word -- but be prepared. At 700 plus pages, it's a hefty volume, so if you appreciate a story told in exacting detail, you're in for a great treat. If you want a more pithy story, get a comic book. I noticed a pattern while reading the various reviews by their respective authors: if it didn't mesh with their favorite genres and writing styles, they simply didn't connect with this story. Not surprising.In my own opinion, some of these critics

I enjoyed this, but it is a pretty long, hard read. What I love about this Wolfe (NEVER to be confused with "tom wolfe," whom I will never read another word of) is that he narrates through the horrors of the 30's (and corresponding literary movements) and hints- or even promises- an ultimate triumph. Very, very similar to Faulkner's Nobel speech....but he never, ever sugar-coats the modern assessment of mankind. I had no idea what to expect here, having only read a few of his short stories. I