James T. Farrell

Gas-House McGinty

Novel of working-class men and their struggles in Depression-era Chicago neighborhoods

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James T. Farrell
James T. Farrell

James T. Farrell documented the Irish-American working-class world of Chicago's South Side with Zolaesque naturalism in his Studs Lonigan trilogy. His unflinching sociology of poverty and failed aspiration influenced later urban fiction.

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