BERNARD CLARE (367 pp.)James T FarrellVanguard ($2.75)
"What writers belonging to the upper class have received from nature for nothing, plebeians acquire at the cost of their youth." James Farrell, a self-conscious plebeian who has already estimated the cost of youth in the hundreds of thousands of words of his Studs Lonigan trilogy and Danny O'Neill tetralogy quotes this remark of Anton Chekhov's at the beginning of Bernard Clare. It is the first of a new series of novels about a young. Chicago-Irish plebeian who fights against odds to make himself into a novelist.
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