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Studs Lonigan a trilogy

The Library of America ; 148

by Farrell James T. (James Thomas)

Synopsis

An unparalleled example of American naturalism, the Studs Lonigan trilogy follows the hopes and dissipations of its remarkable main character—a would-be “tough guy” and archetypal adolescent, born to Irish-American parents on Chicago’s South Side—through the turbulent years of World War I, the Roaring Twenties, and the Great Depression. The three novels—Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day—offer a vivid sense of the textures of real life: of the institutions of Catholicism, the poolroom and the dance marathon, romance and marriage, gangsterism and ethnic rivalry, and the slang of the street corner. Cited as an inspiration by writers as diverse as Kurt Vonnegut and Frank McCourt, Studs Loniganstands as a masterpiece of social realism in the ranks of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrathand Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2004
ISBN-13 9781931082556
ISBN-10 1931082553
Class Copyright
Publisher Library of America
Subject FICTION
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 988
Shelf No. GZ537
Grade Range 12
Ages 18