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James T. Farrell (1904–1979)

Autor/a de Studs Lonigan

79+ obres 1,736 Membres 19 Ressenyes

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James T. Farrell was born Chicago, Illinois on February 27, 1904. He attended the University of Chicago, but left before graduating. During his lifetime, he publish more than 50 books, including 28 novels and 16 collections of short stories. He is the author of the Studs Lonigan Trilogy, the Danny mostra'n més O'Neill Pentalogy, The Bernard Carr Trilogy, and The Universe of Time series featuring Eddie Ryan. He died on August 22, 1979. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Library of Congress

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Obres de James T. Farrell

Studs Lonigan (1935) 977 exemplars
Young Lonigan (1932) 199 exemplars
Judgment Day (1944) 45 exemplars
A World I Never Made (1936) 34 exemplars
No Star is Lost (1938) 26 exemplars
Father and Son (1940) 22 exemplars
Gas-House McGinty (1946) 18 exemplars
My Days of Anger (1954) 17 exemplars
Bernard Clare (1946) 13 exemplars
The Face of Time (1962) 12 exemplars
Ellen Rogers (1941) 11 exemplars
What Time Collects (1964) 11 exemplars
The Silence of History (1965) 11 exemplars
Short Stories [Penguin] (1946) 9 exemplars
It Has Come to Pass (1962) 9 exemplars
This man and this woman (1951) 8 exemplars
On Irish themes (1982) 8 exemplars
Lonely for the Future (1969) 7 exemplars
A note on literary criticism (1993) 7 exemplars
Saturday Night (1950) 6 exemplars
Invisible Swords (1971) 6 exemplars
Literature and morality (1947) 5 exemplars
James T. Farrell Short Stories (1946) 5 exemplars
A Hell of a Good Time (1952) 4 exemplars
Slum Street, USA (1967) 4 exemplars
The road between 4 exemplars
When Boyhood Dreams Come True (1946) 4 exemplars
More stories (1946) 3 exemplars
Sound of a City 3 exemplars
Sam Holman (1983) 3 exemplars
An American Dream Girl (1953) 3 exemplars
When time was born, (1966) 2 exemplars
Yet other waters (1952) 2 exemplars
The Dunne family (1976) 2 exemplars
The Death of Nora Ryan (1978) 1 exemplars
Meet the Girls 1 exemplars
Olive and Mary Anne (1977) 1 exemplars
penguin classics 1 exemplars
Six American Poets 1 exemplars
Yesterday's Love (1952) 1 exemplars
Silence of History (1990) 1 exemplars
Ellen Rogers Bernard Clare (1941) 1 exemplars
The Girls at the Sphinx (1959) 1 exemplars
Judith And Other Stories (1973) 1 exemplars
The Scoop 1 exemplars
Al Sud de Chicago 1 exemplars

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Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Col·laborador — 336 exemplars
75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature (1961) — Col·laborador — 297 exemplars
Prejudices: A Selection (1958) — Editor & Introduction — 270 exemplars
10th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1965) — Col·laborador — 178 exemplars
The Other persuasion: short fiction about gay men and women (1977) — Col·laborador — 121 exemplars
The Best Short Stories of Theodore Dreiser (1947) — Introducció, algunes edicions103 exemplars
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Col·laborador — 102 exemplars
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Col·laborador — 68 exemplars
Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humour (1982) — Col·laborador — 55 exemplars
Great Baseball Stories (1979) — Col·laborador — 47 exemplars
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Col·laborador — 39 exemplars
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1968 (1968) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
50 Best American Short Stories 1915-1939 (1939) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
James Joyce: Two Decades of Criticism (1946) — Col·laborador — 22 exemplars
Labor on the March (1956) — Pròleg — 21 exemplars
New World Writing: Fourth Mentor Selection (1953) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen (1982) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Great Tales of City Dwellers (1955) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Let Us Be Men (1969) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
The Bathroom Reader (1946) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
A Reader for Writers — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Juvenile Delinquency in Literature (1980) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The Avon Annual 1945: 18 Great Modern Stories (1945) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Another book from my 1951 reading list and this time I have been introduced to an American writer from the realist school. This man and this woman is a demoralising and depressing read. The man in question is Walt Callahan and at 63 years old he is thinking of soon taking a peaceful and well earned retirement. He works as a supervisor in an express company and has been through tough times during the depression in America, but him and his wife Peg have raised a family and Walt is considered to be comfortably off. Now that the children have left home Peg has time on her hands and she realises that she has never liked Walt that much and now his very presence around the house causes her to lash out at him. Walt wanting peace and quiet does his best to calm his wife, whom he still loves, but it is becoming an impossible situation. Most of the time he does not know what to say to her, as anything he does say is twisted by Peg against him.

This is a sad story of a woman who feels that she has wasted her life with Walt and now feeling trapped she boils over into frustration. She spends her day cleaning the house and preparing herself for her husbands return, a man whom now she despises. Walt escapes into his job which keeps him busy and occupied and he dreads having to go home. The verbal abuse, the name calling, the insults are unremitting from Peg and Walt does not know how to deal with the situation, especially as Peg reverts occasionally to being a 'good wife'. James T Farrell dialogue is realistic and expresses all the tensions that lie beneath this unhappy couple. Farrell writes from Walt's point of view and he comes across as a kindly man well liked by his family and colleagues, but now seriously out of his depth in his relationship with Peg.

This short novel forges ahead to its logical conclusion and along the way introduces two people struggling to make sense of their lives. It is well written and effortlessly wraps the readers into the miserable existence of this failing relationship. It is written from the mans point of view, but does touch on Peg's early life. The reader has to come to his/her own conclusions to account for a deeply unhappy woman. I was impressed by the quality of Farrell's writing and If I was in the mood for another dose of realism I would turn to him to lead me through the misery: 4 stars
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baswood | Sep 27, 2022 |
The first time I read this novel I was in high school while a subsequent reading was for a book group. Farrell is one of the American naturalists. He chose to use his own personal knowledge of Irish-American life on the South Side of Chicago to create a description of an average American slowly destroyed by the "spiritual poverty" of his environment. Both Chicago and the Irish-American Roman Catholic Church of that era are described in detail, and faulted. Farrell describes Studs sympathetically as Studs slowly deteriorates, changing from a tough but fundamentally good-hearted, adventurous teenage boy to an embittered, physically weak alcoholic.
While Farrell exhibits a gritty realism in his story of Chicago his prose has too many "rough" edges for my taste. The book seems dated in a way that does not happen with Dreiser or Norris, both of whom I admire more than Farrell.
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jwhenderson | Hi ha 12 ressenyes més | Jul 31, 2022 |
Best known for his wonderfully searing portrait of Irish American life in his Studs Lonigan Trilogy this work is a novel featuring the more self aware Danny O'Neill. Once read there is no way one forgets these works by Farrell, one of the USA's best writers so far. Danny is supporting himself by working in a gas station and endures many of the traumas associated with youth and penury. The failure of American society to meet the needs of so many Americans are laid out. You will find insights, and some guilts in a mesmerizing experience. There are four more novels in this series, if you have the nerve.… (més)
 
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DinadansFriend | Feb 24, 2021 |
Hasn't aged well. It wasn't clear to me if the toxic masculinity was being praised, and I'm not sure this first volume motivates me to read the rest to find out. I know the ethnic slurs are of the time but even so they seemed a bit thick. Women and girls are treated horribly. Characters aren't really developed other than Lonigan.
 
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encephalical | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Aug 24, 2019 |

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