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Zusatztext "Among his and my contemporaries! I ranked Wolfe first." Informationen zum Autor One of the most important American writers of his generation, Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) was born in Asheville, North Carolina. His other novels include Of Time and the River and Look Homeward, Angel . Klappentext Shortly before his death at a tragically young age, author Thomas Wolfe presented his editor with an epic masterwork that was subsequently published as three separate novels: You Can't Go Home Again , The Hills Beyond , and The Web and the Rock . The Web and the Root features the three initial sections of the The Web and the Rock , widely considered to be the book's strongest material. A prequel to You Can't Go Home Again , it is the story of George Webber's momentous journey from Libya Falls, North Carolina, to the Golden City of the North—offering vivid, sometimes cutting depictions of rural pleasures and small-town clannishness while exploring boundless urban possibility and the complex, violent undercurrents of the metropolis. Zusammenfassung Published for the first time as a discrete whole, The Web and the Root presents the critically acclaimed opening sections of Thomas Wolfe’s classic novel The Web and the Rock Shortly before his death at a tragically young age, author Thomas Wolfe presented his editor with an epic masterwork that was subsequently published as three separate novels: You Can't Go Home Again , The Hills Beyond , and The Web and the Rock . The Web and the Root features the three initial sections of the The Web and the Rock , widely considered to be the book's strongest material. A prequel to You Can't Go Home Again , it is the story of George Webber's momentous journey from Libya Falls, North Carolina, to the Golden City of the North—offering vivid, sometimes cutting depictions of rural pleasures and small-town clannishness while exploring boundless urban possibility and the complex, violent undercurrents of the metropolis. ...
