Young Lonigan
By James T. Farrell; Ann Douglas (Introduction by)
(Penguin Classics, Paperback, 9780142180075, 224pp.)
Publication Date: June 2003
Categories: Classics
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In American classic in the vein of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, this first book of James T. Farrell's powerful Studs Lonigan trilogy covers five months of the young hero's life in 1916, when he is sixteen years old. In this relentlessly naturalistic yet richly complex portrait, Studs is carried along by his swaggering and shortsighted companions, his narrow family, and his educational and religious background toward a fate that he resists yet cannot escape.
James T. Farrell (1904-1979), a native of Chicago, was a prolific novelist and prominent social activist. He is best known for his gritty novels depicting lower middle-class Irish Catholic life, including his masterpiece, The Studs Lonigan trilogy.
Ann Douglas teaches English at Columbia University. Her books include Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s and The Feminization of American Culture.
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