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Studs Lonigan is a novel trilogy by American author James T. Farrell: Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgment Day (1935). In 1998, the Modern Library ranked the Studs Lonigan trilogy 29th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
The first (Young Lonigan) neatly introduces and establishes the parameters of Studs Lonigan's life: the South Side Chicago neighborhood, the Lonigan family, the ever-present Catholic Church, within and against which the teenaged Studs struggles to find out who he is and who he'll become.
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A trio of novels published between 1932 and 1935, the Studs Lonigan trilogy is an account—“story” implies more plot than it actually has—of growing up in a lower-middle-class Irish-Catholic neighborhood in Chicago as Farrell did.
In this relentlessly naturalistic yet richly complex portrait, Studs starts out his life full of ability and ambition, qualities that are crushed by the Chicago youth's limited social and economic environment.
Jun 24, 2003 · An American classic in the vein of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, the first book of James T. Farrell's powerful Studs Lonigan trilogy covers five months of the young hero's life in...
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Nov 1, 2001 · Books. Studs Lonigan. James T. Farrell. Penguin, Nov 1, 2001 - Fiction - 896 pages. Collected here in one volume is James T. Farrell's renowned trilogy of the youth, early manhood, and death...
