This classic novel, the first in a trilogy set in the 1930s, follows the adolescence and sexual awakening of Studs Lonigan as he grow up on the mean streets of Chicago. Reprint.

In honor of the centennial of the author's birth, a new collector's edition features the three novels from his classic Studs Lonigan trilogy--Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day--a trio of novels that chronicles the life and times of would-be tough guy Studs Lonigan during the turbulent era of World War I, the Roaring Twenties, and the Great Depression.

Product Description: It's a story about coming-of-age and sexual awakening in the mean streets of 1910s Chicago. It's the beginning of a trilogy that will follow Studs Lonigan throughout adolescence. And, claims Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, it reveals "his vision of the truth-the truth about people, the truth about writing, the truth about America...read more

Presents the story of an Irish-American youth growing to adulthood in Chicago in the early twentieth century. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A young Irish boy grows to a desperate and doomed manhood on the streets of Chicago