You Can't Go Home Again

"Though there are extraneous chapters--though YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN contains some of Wolfe's worst writing as well as much of his best--there is a clear, though winding path through the great forest of words and incidents and memories. There is a line, and a mature line. George Webber does grow up, not merely by fiat. There are such brilliant single incidents as that of Mr. Katamoto and that of the fantastic, believable meeting with Lloyd McHarg. But, more than that, though many things on the way were vanity, George Webber's pilgrimage was not vanity, and we do not feel that it was. The book ends neither in doubt nor in illusion."Wolfe, Thomas is the author of 'You Can't Go Home Again', published 1998 under ISBN 9780060930059 and ISBN 0060930055.