The Web And The Rock

Description for THE WEB AND THE ROCK by Thomas Wolfe: A great and passionate and turbulent love story, the only love story Thomas Wolfe ever wrote, probably the most original and most lifelike love story anybody ever wrote---this is one way to describe THE WEB AND THE ROCK. But is is also more than a love story---much more. The hero is George Webber, a brilliant young writer, who, like every American boy that ever was, dreams that one day he will go to New York, the Magic City, and there find fame and fortune and the love of beautiful women. The loadstone of his desire draws him irresistibly and he comes. Though fame proves elusive, and fortune is never his, he does find love. But it is all so different from what he dreamed it would be---different, and yet more wonderful, too. THE WEB AND THE ROCK is an American epic. Its extraordinary sincerity, its burning zest for life, its deep poetic feeling, make it rank with Thomas Wolfe's best and truest work. In it he achieves