James T. Farrell (1904–1979)
Auteur de Studs Lonigan
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de James T. Farrell
French Girls are Vicious and Other Stories 6 exemplaires
The road between 4 exemplaires
Reflections at Fifty and Other Essays 3 exemplaires
Sound of a City 3 exemplaires
The Life Adventurous and Other Stories 3 exemplaires
A Benefactor of Humanity 2 exemplaires
Side Street and Other Stories 2 exemplaires
Boarding House Blues 2 exemplaires
Calico shoes and other stories 2 exemplaires
Can all this grandeur perish? and other stories 2 exemplaires
Meet the Girls 1 exemplaire
Childhood Is Not Forever 1 exemplaire
penguin classics 1 exemplaire
STUDS LONIGAN;Thee Great Books in One Volume: Young Lonigan; the Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan; Judgement Day 1 exemplaire
Six American Poets 1 exemplaire
Studs Lonigan, James T. Farrell's Masterpiece Complete: Young Lonigan, the Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan,… (1977) 1 exemplaire
Side street [short story] 1 exemplaire
Tommy Gallagher's Crusade 1 exemplaire
New Year's eve, 1929 1 exemplaire
Yesterday's Love and Eleven Other Stories 1 exemplaire
The Scoop 1 exemplaire
Al Sud de Chicago 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Best Short Stories of Theodore Dreiser (1947) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 105 exemplaires
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Contributeur — 103 exemplaires
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
New World Writing: Sixth Mentor Selection - A New Adventure in Modern Reading (1954) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
My Most Inspiring Moment: Encounters with Destiny Relived by Thirty-Eight Best-Selling Authors (1965) 10 exemplaires
The Best Short Stories of 1940 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1940) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
A Reader for Writers — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
The Best Short Stories of 1933 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
First Love: Stories by Sixteen of Today's Great Authors of Romantic Fiction (1948) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Farrell, James Thomas
- Date de naissance
- 1904-02-27
- Date de décès
- 1979-08-22
- Lieu de sépulture
- Calvary Cemetery, Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Études
- University of Chicago
- Professions
- novelist
short-story writer - Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1942)
Socialist Workers Party
Workers' Party - Prix et distinctions
- Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1979)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2012)
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Critiques
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 79
- Aussi par
- 31
- Membres
- 1,746
- Popularité
- #14,733
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 19
- ISBN
- 78
- Langues
- 3
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… (plus d'informations)