A Stone for Danny Fisher is a Bildungsroman (or novel of growing up) in the picaresque tradition that goes back at least to Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes. More immediate ancestors include the nineteenth-century moral tales of Horatio Alger, turn-ofthe-century muckraking novels of low life like The Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair, and proletarian novels of the 1930s like Studs Lonigan (1932-1935) by James T. Farrell. James Lane has.....
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