{"product_id":"the-web-and-the-root-isbn-9780061579554","title":"The Web and The Root","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished for the first time as a discrete whole, \u003cem\u003eThe Web and the Root \u003c\/em\u003epresents the critically acclaimed opening sections of Thomas Wolfe’s classic novel \u003cem\u003eThe Web and the Rock\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortly 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: \u003cem\u003eYou Can't Go Home Again\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Hills Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Web and the Rock\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Web and the Root\u003c\/em\u003e features the three initial sections of the \u003cem\u003eThe Web and the Rock\u003c\/em\u003e, widely considered to be the book's strongest material. A prequel to \u003cem\u003eYou Can't Go Home Again\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eShortly 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: \u003cem\u003eYou Can't Go Home Again\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Hills Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Web and the Rock\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Web and the Root\u003c\/em\u003e features the three initial sections of the \u003cem\u003eThe Web and the Rock\u003c\/em\u003e, widely considered to be the book's strongest material. A prequel to \u003cem\u003eYou Can't Go Home Again\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Wolfe wrote as one inspired. No one of his generation had his command of language, his passion, his energy.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Wolfe has written passage after passage that you want to read aloud, to memorize; no novelist since Conrad has more verbal effectiveness.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“He was one of the most brilliant of them all. He had an enormous appetite for life, and a deep sensitivity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Among his and my contemporaries, I ranked Wolfe first.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Faulkner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial Modern Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887853433061,"sku":"NP9780061579554","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061579554.jpg?v=1730227597","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-web-and-the-root-isbn-9780061579554","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}