James T Farrell

Chicago Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

These stories, chosen from ten separately published collections of James T. Farrell's short fiction, offer remarkable insights into the lives of Irish Americans and other Chicagoans from 1910 to 1940. Farrell's stories offer a wonderful diversity of characters and experiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780252019814
• ISBN-10: 0252019814
• Artikelnr.: 21491235

Autorenporträt

Author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy, James T. Farrell (1904-79) was a native of Chicago, famous for the range and depth of his realistic portraits of the city's various populations that he drew from his own experiences and keen powers of observation. Charles Fanning, a professor of English and history and director of Irish and Irish Immigration Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, wrote the introduction to the University of Illinois Press's 1993 paperback edition of Farrell's Studs Lonigan. He is the author of The Irish Voice in America: Irish-American Fiction from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.