The daring young man on the flying trapeze
Saroyan, William, 1908-19812024
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Depression-era San Francisco, home to the lost souls of many races: immigrants, struggling writers and heartsick adolescents, collecting in automats, nightschools, movies and barbershops, working in vineyards, telegram exchanges and as salesmen - and always revelling in being alive. A bestseller on publication in 1934, 'The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze' was the debut collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning (and rejecting) Armenian-American writer William Saroyan. Fusing Whitman's transcendence with the eccentric characterisation of Steinbeck and Salinger, and foreshadowing the rhapsodies of the Beats, his prose is a heart-expanding experience that intoxicates to this day.
Main title:
The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan.
Author:
Saroyan, William, 1908-1981, author
Edition:
New edition / introduction by Stephen Fry.
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2024.
Collation:
252 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9780571383481 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.52
Language:
English
BRN:
2854539
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