James T Farrell
5) Studs Lonigan: a trilogy containing Young Lonigan, The young manhood of Studs Lonigan, Judgment day
Author
Publisher
The Modern Library
Pub. Date
[c1963]
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Collected here in one volume is James T. Farrell's renowned trilogy of the youth, early manhood, and death of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day. In this relentlessly naturalistic portrait, Studs starts out his life full of vigor and ambition, qualities that are crushed by the Chicago youth's limited social and economic environment. Studs's swaggering and vicious comrades, his narrow family, and his...