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"

托馬斯•沃爾夫（Thomas Clayton Wolfe，1900-1938），20世紀美國小說傢。1900年生於北卡羅來納州阿什維爾，畢業於北卡羅來納州大學，在哈佛大學獲得劇本寫作碩士學位，後在紐約大學任教。他創作於大蕭條時期的作品描述瞭美國文化的變化和多樣。1938年沃爾夫去世後，威廉•福剋納將他列為他們那一代最好的作傢，而將自己列在瞭沃爾夫的後麵。“垮掉派”作傢傑剋•凱魯亞剋也將沃爾夫視為自己的文學偶像。