You Can’t Go Home Again is a novel by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940, and tells the story of George Webber, a fledgling author, who writes a book that makes frequent references to his home town. The book is a national success but the residents of the town, unhappy with what they view as the Webber’s distorted depiction of them, send him menacing letters and death threats.
Outcast, the author begins a search for his own identity. It takes him to New York and a hectic social whirl; to Paris with an uninhibited group of expatriates; and to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under monster dictator Adolph Hitler’s shadow.