Gas-House McGinty

New York: Vanguard Press, 1933.

Price: $875.00

Hardcover. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with some chipping at the extremities. Farrell's second novel. Signed by the author. Working-class life in Chicago gets a gritty, hardboiled treatment from the author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy, who here focuses on the travails of the title character, a dispatcher for the Continental Express Company.

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Item #66460 Gas-House McGinty. James T. FARRELL.
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James T. Farrell
birth name: James Thomas Farrell
born: 2/27/1904
died: 8/22/1979
nationality: USA

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American novelist and short-story writer known for his realistic portraits of the lower-middle-class Irish in Chicago, drawn from his own experiences. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore