The Daring Young Man on the Flying ..., Saroyan, Willia

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Good: A book that has been read, but is in good condition. Minimal damage to the book cover eg. ...
ISBN
081121365X
EAN
9780811213653
Publication Name
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Type
Paperback / softback
Release Title
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories: 0
Artist
Saroyan, William
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
081121365X
ISBN-13
9780811213653
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038709448

Product Key Features

Book Title
Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction
Author
William Saroyan
Book Series
New Directions Classic Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-011718
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
Seventh Grade
Series Volume Number
0
Dewey Decimal
813/.52
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Synopsis
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., This book was first published October 15, 1934, William Saroyan writes in the 1940 preface to The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze: You will have to take my word for it that I believed the world would never be the same. Certainly, it never was. Saroyan's first published collection of stories made a tremendous splash in the literary world, adding an author in love with his own madcap sincerity to a pantheon full of serious-minded modernists. A novel is a novelist, he writes, and a short story is a short story writer. Saroyan always wrote about humanity, and always on a human scale. He was also one of the first American writers in this century to focus so much attention on immigrant communities. The protagonists in The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze are often Armenian, Jewish, Chinese, Polish, African, or Irish; and all are treated with what The San Francisco Chronicle called the old Saroyan luminousness, which is to say with an insight as fresh as that of an unusually perceptive child.
LC Classification Number
PS3537.A826D3 1997

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