You Can't Go Home Again

ISBN: 9780060930059

出版社: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

出版年: 1998-09-01

页数: 720

定价: USD 15.99

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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"

作者简介

托马斯?沃尔夫（Thomas Clayton Wolfe，1900-1938），20世纪美国小说家。1900年生于北卡罗来纳州阿什维尔，毕业于北卡罗来纳州大学，在哈佛大学获得剧本写作硕士学位，后在纽约大学任教。他创作于大萧条时期的作品描述了美国文化的变化和多样。1938年沃尔夫去世后，威廉?福克纳将他列为他们那一代最好的作家，而将自己列在了沃尔夫的后面。“垮掉派”作家杰克?凯鲁亚克也将沃尔夫视为自己的文学偶像。

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