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Studs Lonigan
James T. FarrellIntroduction by Charles Fanning
Paper978-0-252-06282-7
$18.95
| Pub Date: | 1993 |
| Pages: | 912 pages |
James T. Farrell's classic trilogy of youth and life in Chicago in the early twentieth century
Studs Lonigan is a trilogy comprising Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgement Day. This story of an Irish-American youth growing to adulthood in Chicago is considered by many to be one of the finest American novels from the first half of the 20th century, and its author was widely regarded as the voice of urban Irish America. This edition includes fragments of Farrell's alternative ending to Judgment Day.
"The single literary conversion of my entire Bronx boyhood was about the good parts' in Studs Lonigan. . . . One summer I read all of the trilogy from beginning to end and enjoyed the other parts even more than 'the good parts.'"--Jules Feiffer, New York Times Book Review
"A devastating account of the short, tragic life of its protagonist and one of the most powerful fictional treatments of the Irish in America."--James Hurt, Illinois Authors
"I read Studs Lonigan in my freshman year at Harvard, and it changed my life. . . . Now, I realized you could write books about people who were something like the people you had grown up with. I couldn't get over the discovery. I wanted to write."--Norman Mailer
"A masterwork of the Depression years, the Studs Lonigan Trilogy is a stunning artistic achievement that urgently demands reconsideration by the present generation of readers and scholars. The appearance in 1928 of the first volume, Young Lonigan, changed U.S. literature forever in ways that have yet to be fully acknowledged or understood. Farrell, the Proust-toting poet of Chicago's tough Irish South Side, pioneered a unique style that burst asunder the barriers separating 'high art' from 'mass culture.' In the rise and fall of Studs Lonigan, Farrell dramatized the hollowness of the 'cult of masculinity' and the overall malaise of U.S. social institutions in a manner outdistancing by far his more famous contemporaries, such as Dos Passos and Steinbeck."--Alan Wald, author of James T. Farrell: The Revolutionary Socialist Years
James T. Farrell (1904-79) was a native of Chicago, famous for the range and depth of his realistic portraits of the city's various populations that he drew from his own experiences and keen powers of observation. Charles Fanning, a professor of English and history and director of Irish and Irish Immigration Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, is the author of The Irish Voice in America: Irish-American Fiction from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.
Subjects:
Fiction / Literature, American / Illinois / Irish / Chicago / Midwest Regional
