The Good Child's River

“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

“Reading these lyrical, effusive pages is to take an invigorating plunge in the swarming sea of Wolfe’s imagination.” — Publishers Weekly

“Wolfe’s stature as an artist is heightened by the publication of this book. The quality of much of Wolfe’s writing here is remarkable: it is rich, poetic, realistic, pictorial, dramatic, nearly always disciplined and lucid. Wolfe rarely wrote better than he often does here.” — John L. Idol, Clemson University

“In this Wolfe material one sees the power, imagination, creativity, and the raw genius of Wolfe at work as he recreates Edith Wharton’s and Henry James’s New York, primarily from the vantage point of the New York Jewish community, the artistic and upper-class community, [and] the artsy-theater community. . . . Stutman has done a masterful job of weighing the pros and cons of what Wolfe has wrought here.” — Leslie Field, Purdue University

“Wolfe creates an opulent picture of life in New York City at the turn of the century.” — Greensboro News and Record