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By James T. Farrell,Anne Douglas

amassed the following in a single quantity is James T. Farrell's popular trilogy of the adolescence, early manhood, and demise of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan, The younger Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day. during this relentlessly naturalistic portrait, Studs begins out his lifestyles choked with energy and ambition, traits which are overwhelmed through the Chicago youth's restricted social and monetary setting. Studs's swaggering and cruel comrades, his slender family members, and his academic and non secular historical past lead him to a lifetime of futile dissipation. Ann Douglas offers an illuminating introductory essay to Farrell's masterpiece, one of many maximum novels of yankee literature.

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