James T. Farrell's trilogy about the Chicago slums, with Christopher Knight miscast as Studs. Kenny: Frank Gorshin. Lucy: Venetia Stevenson. Weary: Jack Nicholson ...

Compressing James T. Farrell's respected trilogy into a 103-minute film doesn't come off. Studs Lonigan is an earnest attempt gone wrong, principally through incoherent execution complicated by ...

Scrubbed-down version of James T. Farrell’s naturalistic saga of an Irish youth growing up in Chicago in the 1920s. With Christopher Knight, Frank Gorshin, Venetia Stevenson, and a young Jack ...

Studs Lonigan A Trilogy Comprising Young Lonigan, the Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day by James T. Farrell Penguin, 912 pp., $20 JAMES FARRELL is not exactly forgotten. Last year, in ...

WHAT HAPPENED to James T. Farrell? Once considered one of America’s most promising writers, Chicago’s favorite son was for a time the odds-on favorite to follow Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck on ...

James T. Farrell was born in obscurity on Feb. 27, 1904, and, notwithstanding Friday's centennial hiccup, will probably wind up where he started. The author of the "Studs Lonigan" trilogy and far too ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information First published in 1974, MELUS features peer-reviewed articles, interviews and reviews encompassing the multi-ethnic scope of ...

THE YOUNG MANHOOD OF STUDS LONIGAN—James T. Farrell—Vanguard ($2.50). Author Farrell is already a little out of date. Though brutally realistic novels with tough slum heroes will doubtless continue to ...