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The William Saroyan Reader by William Saroyan
From Library Journal - First published in 1958, this reader provides a wide selection of Saroyan's work including whole short stories and selections from plays and novels.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description - This is the most complete and generous sampling of the first half of an indispensable American writer's career. Here is the
vintage Saroyan of the early 1930's and early 1940's, the period during which the short stroy writer, playwright, and novelist achieved a critical and popular success comparable to F. Scott Fitzgerald's
during the 1920's. The selection has the added distinction of having been edited, introduced and annotated by Aram Saroyan himself, in effect comprising the writer's own mid-career overview of the best
of his work.
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The Human Comedy by William Saroyan (Author)
From the Publisher - The place is Ithaca, in California's San Joaquin Valley.
The time is World War II. The family is the Macauley's -- a mother, sister, and three brothers whose struggles and dreams reflect those of America's second-generation immigrants.. In particular,
fourteen-year-old Homer, determined to become one of the fastest telegraph messengers in the West, finds himself caught between reality and illusion as delivering his messages of wartime death, love, and
money brings him face-to-face with human emotion at its most naked and raw.
Gentle, poignant and richly autobiographical, this delightful novel shows us the boy becoming the man in a world that
even in the midst of war, appears sweeter, safer and more livable than out own.
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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze: And Other Stories (New Directions Classic) by William Saroyan
Book Description -
A timeless selection of brilliant short stories that won William Saroyan a position among the foremost, most widely popular writers of America when it first appeared in 1934.With the greatest of ease
William Saroyan flew across the literary skies in 1934 with the publication of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories. One of the first American writers to describe the immigrant
experience in the U.S., Saroyan created characters who were Armenians, Jews, Chinese, Poles, Africans, and the Irish. The title story touchingly portrays the thoughts of a very young writer, dying of
starvation. All of the tales were written during the great depression and reflect, through pathos and humor, the mood of the nation in one of its greatest times of want.
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