The artist Alexander Cadwell appears, fictionalized as "Piggy Logan".Ĭondition very good, slight foxing, very sturdy binding.
In parallel to Wolfe's relationship with the United States, the novel details his disillusionment with Germany during the rise of Nazism Wolfe scholar Jon Dawson argues that the two themes are connected most firmly by Wolfe's critique of capitalism and comparison between the rise of capitalist enterprise in the United States in the 1920s and the rise of facism in Germany during the same period. Wolfe, as in many of his other novels, explores the changing American society of the 1920s/30s, including the stock market crash the illusion of prosperity, and the unfair passing of time which prevents Webber ever being able to return "home again". The novel tells the story of George Webber, a fledgling author, who writes a book that makes frequent references to his home town of Libya Hill which was actually Ashville North Carolina. The book is a national success but the residents of the town had been unhappy with what they view as Webber's distorted depiction of them, send the author menacing letters and death threats. It is a sequel to The web and the Rock which, along with the collection The Hills Beyond was extracted from the same manuscript. You Can't Go Home Again is a novel by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940, extracted by his editor, Edward Ashwell, from the contents of his vast unpublished manuscript The October Fair. The artist Alexander Calder appears, fictionalized as "Piggy Logan.You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe Hardback 1st Edition Heinemann 1947 Wolfe scholar Jon Dawson argues that the two themes are connected most firmly by Wolfe's critique of capitalism and comparison between the rise of capitalist enterprise in the United States in the 1920s and the rise of Fascism in Germany during the same period. In parallel to Wolfe's relationship with America, the novel details his disillusionment with Germany during the rise of Nazism. The book is a national success but the residents of the town, unhappy with what they view as Webber's distorted depiction of them, send the author menacing letters and death threats.Wolfe, as in many of his other novels, explores the changing American society of the 1920s/30s, including the stock market crash, the illusion of prosperity, and the unfair passing of time which prevents Webber ever being able to return "home again". Upon the publication of You Can’t Go Home Again in 1940, two years after Wolfe’s death, The New York Times Book Review declared that it 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 was on his way to mastery of his art, who had something profoundly important. The novel tells the story of George Webber, a fledgling author, who writes a book that makes frequent references to his home town of Libya Hill. You Can't Go Home Again is a novel by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940, extracted by his editor, Edward Aswell, from the contents of his vast unpublished manuscript The October Fair.
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