The Good Child's River (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series) - Hardcover

Wolfe, Thomas

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9780807820025: The Good Child's River (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)

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ISBN 10: 0807820024 ISBN 13: 9780807820025

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994

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For the last eight years of his life, Thomas Wolfe worked periodically on a series of chapters that were part of a huge work-in-progress. The work was based loosely on the early life of New York stage and costume designer Aline Bernstein, with whom Wolfe was engaged in a tempestuous love affair for eleven years. In her introduction, Suzanne Stutman points out that publication of this novel should finally lay to rest the myth that Wolfe could write only about himself. Although some sections of this work were heavily edited and published after Wolfe's death, The Good Child's River, as Wolfe wrote it, was not published until 1991 and is now available in paperback for the first time.

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Review:

"Shows Thomas Wolfe at his boldest, richest, and most poetic.

"Christian Science Monitor""

"Wolfe's stature as an artist is heightened by the publication of this book.

John L. Idol, Clemson University"

Wolfe creates an opulent picture of life in New York City at the turn of the century.

"Greensboro News and Record"

"Stutman has done a masterful job of weighing the pros and cons of what Wolfe has wrought here.

Leslie Field, Purdue University"

"Reading these lyrical, effusive pages is to take an invigorating plunge in the swarming sea of Wolfe's imagination.

"Publishers Weekly""

Shows Thomas Wolfe at his boldest, richest, and most poetic.

"Christian Science Monitor"

Wolfe's stature as an artist is heightened by the publication of this book.

John L. Idol, Clemson University

Stutman has done a masterful job of weighing the pros and cons of what Wolfe has wrought here.

Leslie Field, Purdue University

Reading these lyrical, effusive pages is to take an invigorating plunge in the swarming sea of Wolfe's imagination.

"Publishers Weekly"

About the Author:

Suzanne Stutman, editor of My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein, is professor of English and American studies at Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz Campus. She is currently completing editorial work on The Party at Jack's, another Wolfe manuscript.

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