{"product_id":"9780061579554","title":"The Web and The Root","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Web and The Root\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Thomas Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Wolfe wrote as one inspired. No one of his generation had his command of language, his passion, his energy.”\u003cbr\u003e“Wolfe has written passage after passage that you want to read aloud, to memorize; no novelist since Conrad has more verbal effectiveness.”\u003cbr\u003e“He was one of the most brilliant of them all. He had an enormous appetite for life, and a deep sensitivity.”\u003cbr\u003e“Among his and my contemporaries, I ranked Wolfe first.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780061579554\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial Modern Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41057118847182,"sku":"9780061579554","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780061579554.jpg?v=1648264925","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780061579554","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}