Good Child's RiverFor 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