Chicago stories

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Author

Farrell, James T.

Contributions

Fanning, Charles. - Contributor

Publication

1998 - University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL686961M
ISBN-100252019814
OCLC Control Number37688275
OCLC Control Numberchicagostories00farr
Library of Congress Control Number97033896

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LibraryThing452743

Classifications

DDC813/.52
LCCPS3511.A738 A6 1998

Description

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. They are gems of the short fiction genre, unique, pioneering, and accomplished. Farrell's stories offer a wonderful diversity of characters and experiences, from self-deluded, impoverished victims to portraits of the artist as a young Irish-American living on Chicago's South Side. Charles Fanning's introduction presents Farrell as one of the best Illinois writers of the first half of the century and his stories as among the best in realistic short fiction anywhere.