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...
In this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers of Irish birth or background who have explored the Irish immigrant or ethnic experience in works of fiction. The result is a portrait of the evolving fictional self-consciousness of an immigrant group over a span of 250 years.
Fanning traces the roots of Irish-American writing back to the eighteenth century and carries it forward through the traumatic years of the Famine to the present time with an intensely productive period in the...
In this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers ...
