Studs Lonigan (Twentieth-Century Classics)

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 yet richly complex portrait, Studs starts out his life full of ability and ambition, qualities that are crushed by the Chicago youth's limited social and economic environment. Stud's swaggering and shortsighted companions, his narrow family, and his educational and religious background lead him to a fate that he resists in vain. As moving as it is grim, this book, once read, can never be forgotten.