You Can't Go Home Again

You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again is a novel about the life of George Webber, a young writer from the small town of Altamont, North Carolina. George leaves his hometown to pursue his dreams of becoming a successful writer in New York City. The novel follows George as he experiences the highs and lows of life in the big city. He meets a variety of people, from the wealthy and powerful to the poor and downtrodden. He also experiences the joys and sorrows of love, and the struggles of trying to make it as a writer. Throughout the novel, George is haunted by memories of his hometown and the people he left behind. He eventually realizes that he can never truly go home again, and that he must make his own way in the world. The novel ends with George accepting his fate and embracing his new life.

By Thomas Wolfe · First published 1947 · Genre: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Drama · 53 chapters · 260,386 words

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"There came to him an image of man's whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man's life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all man's grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic glory, came from the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew his life was little and would be extinguished, and that only darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of his heart into the maw of all." -Engulfing night.

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