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Studs Lonigan
literary trilogy by Farrell
Studs Lonigan, trilogy of novels by James T. Farrell about life among lower-middle-class Irish Roman Catholics in Chicago during the first third of the 20th century. The trilogy consists of Young Lonigan: A Boyhood in Chicago Streets (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgment Day (1935).
As a boy, William Lonigan (always referred to as “Studs”) makes a slight effort to rise above his squalid urban environment. However, the combination of his own personality, unwholesome neighbourhood friends, a small-minded family, and his schooling and religious training all condemn him to the life of futility and dissipation that are his inheritance.
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