- Paperback: 270 pages
- Publisher: New Directions (Oct 1 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 081121365X
- ISBN-13: 978-0811213653
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.3 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
-
Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#19,050 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #50 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States > Short Stories
- #52 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Short Stories > United States
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
Product Details |
Product Description
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.
About the Author
William Saroyan (1908-1981), famous for a long and voluminous career, burst upon the literary scene in 1934 with his celebrated short-story collection of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze. He went on to write novels, along with some sixteen story collections, and plays including The Human Comedy and The Time of Your Life, for which he won the Drama Critics Circle and Pulitzer Prizes. He lived and wrote about "the archetypal Armenian families who inhabit "Saroyan Country", in and around Fresno, California. [And yet with their] unpredictable charm and wacky spontaneity...his characters overflow with so much human comedy that they transcend all ethnic boundaries, as in the stories of I.B. Singer" (Chicago Tribune).
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
Horizontally wakeful amid universal widths, practising laughter and mirth, satire, the end of all, of Rome and yes of Babylon, clenched teeth, remembrance, much warmth volcanic, the streets of Paris, the plains of Jericho, much gliding as of reptile in ab Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Horizontally wakeful amid universal widths, practising laughter and mirth, satire, the end of all, of Rome and yes of Babylon, clenched teeth, remembrance, much warmth volcanic, the streets of Paris, the plains of Jericho, much gliding as of reptile in ab Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most helpful customer reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Creatively crafted -- never a dull moment.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze (Paperback)
Saroyan has a rare sense of language usage and introduces thoughts and ideas causing you to stop and realize how the grind of everyday life can be refreshing, moving, and humorous. His writings represent a slice of life in everyday America as well as amusing insights into the wacky right braininess of a writer. Once you get through the first chapter and can stand up again, the rest of the book is one deeper-than-real-life-story after another. Like Edith Wharton, Saroyan has a command of the craft of writing that seems lost in today's works.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Saroyan's first book of stories.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze (Paperback)
A masterful work. Most of them written in a thirty day period, in which Saroyan promised to send the editors od Story magazine a story a day for thirty days. He proceeded to do this and this book made Saroyan an instant celebrity.Saroyan eventually went on to win the Pulitzer for his play "The Time of You Life", but turned it down. This book was a stunner when it first appeared. The simple yet poetic language ran against the trend of the times. Saroyan is a nearly forgotten genius, yet his influence is evident in even his enemies, like Ernest Hemingway. Buy this book, read it, and then give it to somebody. They will thank you and so will I.
5.0 out of 5 stars
It was the best book I read in the right time.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze (Paperback)
I think there are not many books, that can change your life. This is one of them. I was sixteen when I read this book for the first time. I was not very happy in that time and I was rather confused by life but it has changed. In these short stories I could read about thoughts and feelings, that were similar to mine, but I had not be able to express them. But angle of wiev was new. It made me to live in spite of the world.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Want to see more reviews on this item?
|
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
