Web and the Root

<p><strong>Published for the first time as a discrete whole <em>The Web and the Root </em>presents the critically acclaimed opening sections of Thomas Wolfe's classic novel <em>The Web and the Rock</em></strong></p><p>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: <em>You Can't Go Home Again</em> <em>The Hills Beyond</em> and <em>The Web and the Rock</em>.</p><p><em>The Web and the Root</em> features the three initial sections of the <em>The Web and the Rock</em> widely considered to be the book's strongest material. A prequel to <em>You Can't Go Home Again</em> 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.</p>