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You Can't Go Home Again

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You Can't Go Home Again
AuthorThomas Wolfe
Published1940
Pages720
RecommendedOnce
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Why it’s on the listThomas Wolfe’s posthumous novel of George Webber, whose book about his hometown makes him unwelcome there.

Where I heard about it

  • John Steinbeck — invokes the title on his own return to Salinas in Travels with Charley: “There was a great man named Thomas Wolfe and he wrote a book called You Can’t Go Home Again. And that is true.” My note beside it: “Look it up.”
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