You Can't Go Home Again
By Thomas Wolfe
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Thomas Wolfe's final novel, published posthumously in 1940, follows George Webber, a young writer whose first book brings him fame but also the fury of the hometown neighbors he portrayed in it. Webber's search for his place as an artist takes him from New York's glittering society through the 1929 crash, to London's literary world and to a Germany falling under Hitler's shadow. A sweeping portrait of America and Europe between the Depression and World War II, it is ultimately a story of a man coming to terms with the fact that the past cannot be recovered.