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

Thomas Wolfe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807844578 ISBN 13: 9780807844571

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 1994

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

"Shows Thomas Wolfe at his boldest, richest, and most poetic. . . . Readers who come fresh to it, never before having read Wolfe, may well be stunned by his power, and may start questioning the skinny little sentences and squeaks of feeling in today's writers. The rest of us will be replenished and exhilarated. Nobody writes for full orchestra any more."-- Christian Science Monitor

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0807844578
• ISBN 13: 9780807844571
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332