James T. Farrell (1904–1979)
Autore di La vita di Studs Lonigan
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Library of Congress
Serie
Opere di James T. Farrell
The road between 4 copie
Sound of a City 3 copie
A Benefactor of Humanity 2 copie
Side Street and Other Stories 2 copie
Calico shoes and other stories 2 copie
Boarding House Blues 2 copie
Six American Poets 1 copia
Childhood Is Not Forever 1 copia
penguin classics 1 copia
Studs Lonigan, James T. Farrell's Masterpiece Complete: Young Lonigan, the Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan,… (1977) 1 copia
Meet the Girls 1 copia
Side street [short story] 1 copia
Tommy Gallagher's Crusade 1 copia
New Year's eve, 1929 1 copia
The Scoop 1 copia
Al Sud de Chicago 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Collaboratore — 103 copie
New World Writing: Sixth Mentor Selection - A New Adventure in Modern Reading (1954) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
My Most Inspiring Moment: Encounters with Destiny Relived by Thirty-Eight Best-Selling Authors (1965) 10 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1940 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1940) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
A Reader for Writers — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1933 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story — Collaboratore — 1 copia
First Love: Stories by Sixteen of Today's Great Authors of Romantic Fiction (1948) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Farrell, James Thomas
- Data di nascita
- 1904-02-27
- Data di morte
- 1979-08-22
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Calvary Cemetery, Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Chicago
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1942)
Socialist Workers Party
Workers' Party - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1979)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2012)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 79
- Opere correlate
- 31
- Utenti
- 1,748
- Popolarità
- #14,714
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 19
- ISBN
- 78
- Lingue
- 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… (altro)