Collected here in one volume is James T. Farrell's renowned trilogy of
the youth, early manhood, and death of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan,
The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day. In this
relentlessly naturalistic portrait, Studs starts out his life full of
vigor and ambition, qualities that are crushed by the Chicago youth's
limited social and economic environment. Studs's swaggering and vicious
comrades, his narrow family, and his educational and religious
background lead him to a life of futile dissipation. Ann Douglas
provides an illuminating introductory essay to Farrell's masterpiece,
one of the greatest novels of American literature.
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