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Classics · DarkStuds Lonigan, a tough teenager on Chicago's South Side, is worn down by the spiritual poverty around him
Studs Lonigan
1935Moderate readSteady pace
★ Modern Library 100 Best Novels (editors' list, 1998), No. 29
An Irish-American teenager in Chicago is slowly destroyed by his environment
The trilogy consists of Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934) and Judgment Day (1935). It is set in the Irish-American Catholic community on Chicago's South Side. Studs Lonigan starts as a tough but good-hearted, adventurous teenager and becomes an embittered, physically shattered alcoholic, slowly destroyed by the "spiritual poverty" of his environment.
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Who
Studs Lonigan.
World
The Irish-American Catholic community on Chicago's South Side.
What makes it different
It is three novels, written between 1932 and 1935, that follow one life from teenage years on.
Feel
Heavy and bleak.
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Further reading
- Studs LoniganWikipedia