“Young Lonigan” by James T. Farrell. Signed Limited-Edition. Franklin. Hardcover

“Young Lonigan” by James T. Farrell • Signed Limited-Edition • The Franklin Library, 1979 • Hardcover Condition: Excellent/ Like-New —————————————————— 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 1916, when he is sixteen years old. In this relentlessly naturalistic yet richly complex portrait, Studs is carried along by his swaggering and shortsighted companions, his narrow family, and his educational and religious background toward a fate that he resists yet cannot escape. ————————— Reviews "Farrell was perhaps the most powerful naturalist who ever worked in the American tradition. . . . Passionately honest and passionately narrow, he brought to his novels the intensity of an autobiographical mission as tortured and complex in its way as Proust.” "I read Studs Lonigan my freshman year at Harvard, and it changed my life. . . . I couldn't get over the discovery. I wanted to write.” ————— About the Author James Thomas Farrell (1904–1979) was born in Chicago to a struggling family of second-generation Irish Catholic immigrants. Farrell worked his way through the University of Chicago, absorbing the works of James, Freud, Mellville, Mencken and others. His first novel, Young Lonigan (1932) followed by The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934) and Judgment Day (1935) the celebrated Studs Lonigan trilogy.