Word: lonigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early '30s, a somewhat owlish Chicago slum boy named James Thomas Farrell decided to make the U.S. slum-sensitive. He succeeded better than almost anybody but Al Capone. Farrell's Studs Lonigan (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934) became a synonym for the smalltime U.S. tough guy. With dogged earnestness, a lot of firsthand factuality (Farrell was born the son of a Chicago teamster in 1904) and a total lack of humor, Farrell painstakingly traced Studs's dingy career and its social context through three slablike volumes. None of the Studs series was quite as good as Volume...
...want to handle the intellectuals with the same attention to human values as I handled the people Studs Lonigan knew...
With this novel, James T. Farrell, tireless author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy and its sequels, moves from the noisy and redolent cellars of shanty Irish up into the parlor...
Thus brooded young Danny O'Neill, a minor character in Studs Lonigan, James T. Farrell's hard-boiled chronicle of a poolroom slob in South Chicago's vast Shanty-Irish district. Studs Lonigan was really the book Danny O'Neill had in mind, but all its 1,108 pages did not purge his memory of its hates and bitterness. So Danny himself became the subject of two later novels: A World I Never Made (1936), No Star Is Lost (1938). This week appeared a third, Father and Son, bringing the story of Danny O'Neill...