n nShortly 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: You Cant Go Home Again, The Hills Beyond, and The Web and the Rock.n nThe Web and the Root features the three initial sections of the The Web and the Rock, widely considered to be the books strongest material. A prequel to You Cant Go Home Again, it is the story of George Webbers 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. n