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.
These stories, chosen from ten separately published collections of James T. Farrell's short fiction, offer remarkable insights into the lives of Irish...
The second novel in Farrell's pentalogy picks up where "A World I Never Made" left off in the ongoing saga of the O'Neill and O'Flaherty families. Continuing on the theme of poverty's effect on children, we return to scenes of Danny O'Neill's life in Chicago, where the schism between his life in public and his private experiences at home begins to create in him a tension and bewilderment suggestive of the problems he will face in his future.
The second novel in Farrell's pentalogy picks up where "A World I Never Made" left off in the ongoing saga of the O'Neill and O'Flaherty families. Con...
A sprawling tale of two families' struggles with harsh urban realities
The first book in Farrell's five-volume series to be republished by the University of Illinois Press, "A World I Never Made" introduces three generations from two families, the working-class O'Neills and the lower-middle-class O'Flahertys. The lives of the O'Neills in particular reflect the tragic consequences of poverty, as young Danny O'Neill's parents--unable to sustain their large family--send him to live with his grandmother. Seen here at the age of seven, Danny is fraught with feelings of anxiety and dislocation as...
A sprawling tale of two families' struggles with harsh urban realities
The first book in Farrell's five-volume series to be republished by the Unive...
The fourth novel in James T. Farrell s pentalogy chronicles Danny O Neill s coming of age. Recording his reactions to initiation into college life at the University of Chicago and the imminent death of his grandmother, one of his primary caretakers, Danny realizes the value of time and gains confidence in his writing abilities. As he works on his first novel, he prepares to leave his family, his Catholicism, and his neighborhood in Chicago behind for a new life as a writer in New York."
The fourth novel in James T. Farrell s pentalogy chronicles Danny O Neill s coming of age. Recording his reactions to initiation into college life ...
The third book in James T. Farrell s five-volume series to be republished by the University of Illinois Press, Father and Son follows Danny O Neill through his struggle into young adulthood among the O Flaherty and O Neill families. Full of bewilderment and anxiety, Danny experiences high school, the death of his father, and his first full-time job at the Express Company that employed his father. Fraught with failed attempts to communicate with his father and peers, Danny is burdened by his family s constant economic and emotional demands."
The third book in James T. Farrell s five-volume series to be republished by the University of Illinois Press, Father and Son follows Danny O Neill...
The final book in James T. Farrell's five-volume series on the O'Neill-O'Flaherty families, "The Face of Time" chronicles the slow and painful decline of Danny O'Neill's grandfather Tom and aunt Louise--whose deaths haunt "A World I Never Made." Featuring the family's experience with emigration from Ireland, "The Face of Time" brings the series full circle by evoking feelings of bewilderment, shame, and fear as the O'Neills embark on a new life in Chicago in the late nineteenth century.
The final book in James T. Farrell's five-volume series on the O'Neill-O'Flaherty families, "The Face of Time" chronicles the slow and painful decline...
This rich collection of three generations of Irish immigrant fiction from novels, magazines, and newspapers, vividly captures the spirit and experiences of immigrant life across an impressive range of settings and perspectives, from New York and Boston to Chicago to San Francisco, from urban ghettos to prairie farms.
This rich collection of three generations of Irish immigrant fiction from novels, magazines, and newspapers, vividly captures the spirit and experienc...
In "New Perspectives" "on the Irish Diaspora," Charles Fanning incorporates eighteen fresh perspectives on the Irish diaspora over three centuries and around the globe. He enlists scholarly tools from the disciplines of history, sociology, literary criticism, folklore, and culture studies to present a collection of writings about the Irish diaspora of great variety and depth."
In "New Perspectives" "on the Irish Diaspora," Charles Fanning incorporates eighteen fresh perspectives on the Irish diaspora over three centuries and...
In "New Perspectives" "on the Irish Diaspora," Charles Fanning incorporates eighteen fresh perspectives on the Irish diaspora over three centuries and around the globe. He enlists scholarly tools from the disciplines of history, sociology, literary criticism, folklore, and culture studies to present a collection of writings about the Irish diaspora of great variety and depth."
In "New Perspectives" "on the Irish Diaspora," Charles Fanning incorporates eighteen fresh perspectives on the Irish diaspora over three centuries and...
A collection of eighteen critical essays and twenty-six translations spanning the career of one of the founding intellects of Irish Studies, the "Selected Writings of John V. Kelleher on Ireland and Irish America "consists of five accessible sections. The first gathers Kelleher s essays on the most widely known Irish cultural phenomenonthe literary renaissance of the early twentieth century. Part two contains his judicious assessments of Irish literature in its post-Revolutionary phase. The third section includes Kelleher s insightful essays on the experience of the Irish in America. The...
A collection of eighteen critical essays and twenty-six translations spanning the career of one of the founding intellects of Irish Studies, the "Sele...
