A WORLD I NEVER MADE

by James T. Farrell ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 22, 1936

This seems closer, somehow, to Hanley's The Furys than to Farrell's own Studs Lonigan. It's a disturbing book, sociology in narrative form if you like, and definitely representing what Henry Canby terms ""the school of vulgarity"". But it is powerful, racy, utterly lacking any repressions, even in the interest of taste, literary or otherwise. Unforgettable, it burns itself into the consciousness, creating characters that are horribly alive, situations that cry for remedy and for which there seems none. A story of Chicago, of the Irish -- inflammable, unstable, swearing eternal fidelity one minute and delivering black eyes the next. It isn't a novel -- it is simply a slice of life, meticulously laid forth in all its sordid ugliness, its emotionalism, its crudity, its occasional sentimentality, its poignancy, its rare bunor. One hates it as one reads -- but one reads. Farrell is writing far ahead of most of his confreres in this school.

Pub Date: Oct. 22, 1936

ISBN: 0252031733

Page Count: -

Publisher: Vanguard

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1936

Categories: NONFICTION