You Can Never Go Home

Rowrrbazzle december 13 2005 10 11pm.

You can never go home. 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by thomas wolfe published posthumously in 1940 extracted by his editor edward aswell from the contents of his vast unpublished manuscript the october fair. You can t go home again will stand apart from everthing else that wolfe wrote because this is the book of a man who had come to terms with himself who was on his wa to mastery of his art who had something profoundly important to say new york times book review from the back cover. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there.

He died in 1938 of tuberculosis. The phrase you can t go home again means that you can return to a particular hunk of land but the old home simply doesn t exist anymore so there s no way to return to it. At any rate that is how it seemed to young george webber who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train.

It s an attitude however you look at it new perspectives change how home is. This expression gained popularity as the title of thomas wolfe s novel you can t go home again. Wolfe was born in north carolina in 1900 and during his relatively short life wrote four novels and many short stories and plays.

Jim is so excited to visit his childhood town i hope he knows that you can t go home again. Conceivably you could go away and discover home to be notably enlightened compared to where you ve traveled. You can never go home again the things i have seen would horrify the strongest when i left home i haven t been to in the longest led a life by the sword was supposed to fall upon it.

It was only when he got there that his homelessness began thomas wolfe you can t go home again.