Studs Lonigan
by James T. Farrell
Buy on AmazonThe life of every individual, sayeth the sage, runs along the line created by the intersection of two planes: personality and social setting. I can’t think of any American novelist who ever drew that line more brilliantly than James T. Farrell in this trilogy. If this be “plodding realism,” let every American novelist start plodding Studs-style , lest the American novel fall down in a heap and die, as it now seems wont to do.
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"The life of every individual, sayeth the sage, runs along the line created by the intersection of two planes: personality and social setting. I can’t think of any American novelist who ever drew that line more brilliantly than James T. Farrell in this trilogy. If this be “plodding realism,” let every American novelist start plodding Studs-style , lest the American novel fall down in a heap and die, as it now seems wont to do."
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"My first adolescent plunge into serious novels was James T. Farrell's trilogy about a Chicago adolescent, Studs Lonigan."
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"There's a mash-up of "Studs Lonigan" and "The Old Wives' Tale" in there somewhere."
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