You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe - 1940

The novel tells the story of George Webber, a fledgling author, who writes a book that makes frequent references to his home town of Libya Hill which was actually Asheville, North Carolina. The book is a national success but the residents of the town, being unhappy with what they view as Webber's distorted depiction of them, send the author menacing letters and death threats.

Wolfe, as in many of his other novels, explores the changing American society of the 1920s/30s, including the stock market crash, the illusion of prosperity, and the unfair passing of time which prevents Webber ever being able to return "home again". In parallel to Wolfe's relationship with the United States, the novel details his disillusionment with Germany during the rise of Nazism.  Wolfe scholar Jon Dawson argues that the two themes are connected most firmly by Wolfe's critique of capitalism and comparison between the rise of capitalist enterprise in the United States in the 1920s and the rise of fascism in Germany during the same period."
This copy is very good in dark blue cloth with gilt titles on red badges on the spine and front cover, along with gilt ruling on both spine and front cover as well.  The binding is quite sound and the book shows very light bumoing and fading, primarily on the spine ends.  A discreet ink stamp "Zingrone Library" on the ffep and the ink name of a previous owner and date "Ovt 1940" on the half title page.  No other marks or damage at all.  No DJ.