In the canon
Young Lonigan
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1932
- Pages
- Pages 200
It opens at a bathroom mirror on graduation day: a fifteen-year-old holding his cigarette the way he imagines a tough guy holds one, rehearsing the face that will earn him respect on Fifty-eighth Street. Later that summer Studs Lonigan climbs a tree in Washington Park with Lucy Scanlan, and they sit swinging their legs above the grass, saying almost nothing, and the hour is so unguarded and so happy that it will glow at the back of his mind for the rest of his life.
He had a picture in his mind of Studs Lonigan courageously telling life and the world to stick itself up it's old tomato.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.