A World I Never Made
Contributors: Charles Fanning (Introduction)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: March 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780252031731
Subjects: Modern fiction; Classics; Literary; Fiction / Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General; Domestic fiction; Irish Americans; South Chicago (Chicago, Ill.)
Description: The first book in Farrell's five-volume series, A World I Never Made introduces three generations from two families, the working-class O'Neills and the lower-middle-class O'Flahertys. The lives of the O'Neills in particular reflect the tragic consequences of poverty, as young Danny O'Neill's parents--unable to sustain their large family--send him to live with his grandmother. Seen here at the age of seven, Danny is fraught with feelings of anxiety and dislocation as he learns the ins and outs of life on the street.