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finished reading Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell (Penguin twentieth-century classics)

James T. Farrell: Studs Lonigan (2001, Penguin Books)

[William V. Lipton][1] from Ann Arbor, MI says: "This is both a coming-of-age novel and …

A rich trilogy with a magnificent amount of color, a tragic depression tale. It’s perhaps also worth saying that this book has the highest density of racial slurs of any book I’ve ever read. There’s practically at least one on every page, and there are nearly 900 pages.