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Studs Lonigan
Farrell James T.
Douglas Ann (INT)
edizioni Penguin Classics collana Penguin Classics (Paperback) , 2001
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...
Studs Lonigan
Farrell James T.
edizioni Library of America collana Library of America (Hardcover) , 2004
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...
Young Lonigan
Farrell James T.
Hamill Pete (INT)
edizioni Signet Classic collana Signet Classic (Paperback)
It's a story about coming-of-age and sexual awakening in the mean streets of 1910s Chicago. It's the beginning of a trilogy that will follow Studs Lonigan throughout adolescence. And, claims Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, it reveals "his vision of the truth-the truth about people, the truth about writing, the truth about...
Young Lonigan
Farrell James T.
Douglas Anne (INT)
edizioni Penguin Classics collana Penguin Classics (Paperback)
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...
