Bernard Clare
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| Author | James T. Farrell |
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| Publisher | Vanguard Press |
Publication date | 1946 |
Bernard Clare is a 1946 novel by James T. Farrell. It was the first novel in a trilogy following the writer Bernard Carr.[1] The character's name was changed from Clare to Carr following a libel suit from a man named Bernard Clare.[2] Farrell won the libel case, with the court holding that it was "inconceivable that any sensible person could assume...that it purported to refer to the life and career of the [real] Bernard Clare"[3] The book follows a twenty-one year old novelist who moves from Chicago to New York and becomes involved in radical politics.[4] Unlike the protagonists of the Studs Lonigan and Danny O'Neill novels, Bernard Carr was the first character Farrell had written who was also a novelist and involved with literature.[5]
External links[edit]
- Matthiessen, F. O. (May 12, 1946). "James T. Farrell's Human Comedy". The New York Times. pp. 120, 137.
- Book Review Digest 1946
References[edit]
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- ^ Branch, Edgar M. (1963). James T. Farrell. University of Minnesota Press. p. 29. ISBN 9781452910475.
- ^ Husband, Janet G. (2009). Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series. American Library Association. p. 267. ISBN 9780838909676.
- ^ Beil, Norman (1984). The Writer's Legal and Business Guide. Arco Publishing. p. 91. ISBN 9780668055796.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Wilkinson, Pamela, ed. (2014). Major Characters In American Fiction: A Biographical Encyclopedia of More Than 1500 of the Most Influential Fictional Creations of American Writers. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 9781466881938.
- ^ Rosenfeld, Isaac (1988). Preserving the Hunger: An Isaac Rosenfeld Reader. Wayne State University Press. p. 55. ISBN 9780814318805.