Studs Lonigan. A Trilogy Containing Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day.
by Farrell, James T. [William Safire]
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library, [1938]. Farrell wrote these three novels at a time of national despair. During the Great Depression, many of America's most gifted writers and artists aspired to create a single, powerful work of art that would fully expose the evils of capitalism and lead to a political and economic overhaul of the American system. Farrell chose to use his own personal knowledge of Irish-American life on the South Side of Chicago to create a portrait of an average American slowly destroyed by the "spiritual poverty" of his environment. Both Chicago and the Catholic Church of that era are described at length and faulted. Farrell describes Studs sympathetically as Studs slowly deteriorates, changing from a tough but fundamentally good-hearted, adventurous teenage boy to an embittered, physically shattered alcoholic. In 1979 Studs Lonigan was produced as a television miniseries starring Harry Hamlin, Colleen Dewhurst, Brad Dourif, Dan Shor, and Charles Durning. Production Designer Jan Scott won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Limited Series or a Special.
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 127643
- Title
- Studs Lonigan. A Trilogy Containing Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day.
- Author
- Farrell, James T. [William Safire]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1938]
- Keywords
- James Farrell First Edition Signed, Studs Lonigan First Edition, William Saffire First Edition
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