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"