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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. ... Read more

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So glad I got this
I read about Saroyan in Closing Time (Heller's disappointing sequel to Catch-22), I was inspired to pick up this book and I'm so glad I did. I'm about 2/3 of the way through the book, and so far the preface remains my favorite part. Fortunately, that's because it's an amazing preface that, brief as it may be, would have been just barely worth the purchase price all on its own. This is, of course, not an issue, because so far every story has been a bite-sized morsel of goodness. Especially great for the sort of person who likes to read a few short stories in one sitting, they're compact and plentiful and thoroughly satisfying. So... get this book.

TOP SHELF
William Saroyan was brought to my attention by Jack Kerouac's early writings in "Upon An Underwood."I can see why Kerouac was turned on by Saroyan...and so am I.This book of stories is very inspiring because, in a good-natured way, it defies the conformist rules and regulations that "academic literature" tries to enforce upon young writers.It's as funny as it is insightful...and even a bit bizarre.It easily belongs on the TOP SHELF of any library.
Its value is timeless.

Creatively crafted -- never a dull moment.
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 ineveryday America as well as amusing insights into the wacky rightbraininess of a writer. Once you get through the first chapter and canstand up again, the rest of the book is one deeper-than-real-life-storyafter another. Like Edith Wharton, Saroyan has a command of the craftof writing that seems lost in today's works.

Saroyan's first book of stories.
A masterful work.Most of them written in a thirty day period, in whichSaroyan promised to send the editors od Story magazine a story a day forthirty days.He proceeded to do this and this book made Saroyan an instantcelebrity.

Saroyan eventually went on to win the Pulitzer for his play"The Time of You Life", but turned it down.

This book was astunner when it first appeared.The simple yet poetic language ran againstthe trend of the times.

Saroyan is a nearly forgotten genius, yet hisinfluence is evident in even his enemies, like Ernest Hemingway.

Buy thisbook, read it, and then give it to somebody.They will thank you and sowill I.

It was the best book I read in the right time.
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. ... Read more

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Provoked by the Variety obits column, Saroyan is at his best in this playful but often sardonic review of personalities from Busby Berkeley to Agatha Christie to Howard Hughes.
Nominated for the American Book Award.
Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times. ... Read more

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Eleven of William Saroyan's most delightfultales, Fresno Stories springs straightfrom the source of the author's vision--thearchetypal Armenian families who inhabit Saroyan country, in and around Fresno, California.

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SHORT STORIES BY A MASTER




One of America's most colorful authors, William Saroyan, is remembered for his novels, short stories, and plays.He won early accolades with the 1934 publication of his short story, "The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze."Following this was a play, "The Time Of Your Life," and a novel, "The Human comedy," which was made into a movie.

Laced with humor, wisdom and understanding, "Fresno Stories" holds 11 of Saroyan's best - sparkling tales peopled by the Armenian families who lived in and around Fresno, California.Each of his characters bubbles with an exuberance for life, a spontaneity that embraces every moment.

In "The Great Leapfrog Contest" Rosie Mahoney, a tough little Irish girl hangs out with the boys.She makes a place for herself by not fighting "girl-style" or crying if she is hurt.Since it was humiliating to be bested by Rosie, most of the boys made way for her, except Rex.Following an argument, Rosie dares Rex to fight.Only the wild and sometimes wacky imagination of Saroyan could carry this challenge to its comical conclusion.

These are short stories, but none of them are short on style or reading pleasure.

- Gail Cooke

OK, read it!
Well, I lived in Fresno for a while, so I decided to read this little book of short stories.Saroyan is not exactly a pleasant writer.There's a certain anger in his writing that flares up here and there.Besides, some of these stories are rather simplistic in their development, almost too contrived, like the first one, The man with the heart in the Highlands.The repetitious pattern of sentences made this story read like a college assignment.However,I enjoyed "Many miles per hour", a story about two brothers who befriend (and end up adoring) a race car driver.This story alone is worth getting the book.The youngest brother is the narrator, a little guy only 10 years old, and he does such agood job. My other two favorite stories are "Madness in the family" is possibly an autobiographical tale of eccentric relatives, and "A Fresno tale", so funny because it is extremely short and missing an ending.

Good to Carry around
I bought this book of stories before buying "A daring Young Man on the flying trapeze" simply because it was cheaper and I wanted to see if I would like Saroyan that much.Collectively the stories are very good with "The Duel" and "Heart in the Highlands" as my favorites.I liked the book enough to buy "trapeze" and have to admit that the stories and "Trapeze" are on a different level than most of these tales.But this collection while not as good still has enjoyable stories in a small book you can carry around anywhere and read if you find yourself getting bored. ... Read more

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A collection of memorable stories
"My Name Is Aram" is a collection of short stories set in Fresno, California in the early 20th century featuring a boy named Aram and his extended Armenian family. The stories are essentially in chronological order and include recurring characters, but the book isn't truly a novel, as all the stories are self-contained and could really be read in any order.

Most of the stories in "My Name Is Aram" are superbly written gems of short fiction. The first, "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse," has frequently been anthologized and with good reason: it is an expertly crafted short story, with a childlike sense of wonder and some unforgettable characters (such as the easily irritated Uncle Khosrove, who reacts to EVERYTHING by shouting "It is no harm! Pay no attention to it!"). Another favorite is the offbeat "Locomotive 38, the Ojibway," about a wealthy, eccentric Native American who wanders into Aram's town. These are two stories that everyone should read at least once. I also particularly enjoyed "The Circus" (Aram can't resist skipping school whenever the circus comes to town), "The Pomegranate Trees" (about an attempt by Aram's uncle to grow a field of pomegranate trees in harsh desert land), and "The Three Swimmers and the Grocer from Yale" (on the way home from a swim, Aram and two other boys encounter a very strange grocer). A couple of the other stories have a somewhat sad or serious tone, which helps balance the book as a whole.

Many of these stories reminded me of the works of Jean ("A Christmas Story") Shepherd. Aram is often getting into minor trouble and clashing with the authority figures at school, but even when they're punishing him, most of the adults realize he's just being a kid. A common theme in this book is the conflict between people who are artistic (or "poets") by nature and those who consider such pursuits to be foolish. William Saroyan clearly sympathizes with these "poets," who he admits may not always be practical, but who nonetheless make the world a much more colorful, interesting place.

Originally published in 1940, "My Name Is Aram" is a timeless classic that everyone should read. If you've never read any of Saroyan's short stories, you're in for a treat!

Saroyan is still worth a look (for readers of all ages)
I reached for this book because I was thinking about stories that I had loved in my junior high years, and I remembered some of Saroyan's stories about a boy growing up in a rural area during World War II.I don't think the author's reputation has really grown much in recent years - up until the 1970s or 80s he was part of the cohort of great American 20th century writers, and I am not sure he is in that category any more - but he is a very interesting writer.His stories are a little odd, yet deeply American and very human.He writes a fair bit about what seem like fairly minor, ambiguous incidents in his characters' lives.

This book of short stories is based on his memories of growing up near Fresno, Cal. between 1915 and 1925. His family was Armenian, and they were farming people.These are well-written and charming little yarns, which have the ability to appeal to both younger and older readers. "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" is the best, and I used it in a class I was teaching.It tells the story of two cousins, one around 10 and the other around 13.The older boy has stolen a white horse which they ride around at night so that no one can see them.Eventually they are caught, and give the horse back to its rightful owner.In another one I liked, a few boys go for a long hike and a swim in a river.On the way back they meet an eccentric shopkeeper with a Yale education.It describes a kind of adventure which is mostly gone from the American landscape today.In a funny piece, one boy keeps getting sent to the principal's office, where the principal half-heartedly flogs him, and the boy somehow gets in between a possible budding romance between the principal and a teacher.In a sweet yet slightly disturbing tale, an Indian who apparently has come into some money hires a boy to drive him around town and show him where the good fishing is.

Not all of these were good for today's students - in fact only a couple would be.But I enjoyed reading them, andI look forward to someday dipping into some of Saroyan's more adult works.

My Name is Aram
Arrived Quickly and in the Condition Promised. A Real Treat For Dad Who Love It When He was a Kid and is Now Enjoying Reading It to His Grand Children.

Thanx!!

The Hobo Philosopher
William Saroyan who is also the author of the famous song, made immortal by Rosemary Clooney, "Come On A My House" wrote these great tales. He and a nephew, Ross Bagdasarian (David Seville) wrote the song in their enthusiasm while on a road trip to visit an Aunt somewhere out west. Rosey Clooney added her seductive slant to the song in 1951 and we got the famous million seller.

I read this book for the first time over forty years ago. I loved it and never forgot many of the stories.
As I held the book in my hand to write this review, I began relating some of the tales in it to my wife. Then I sat down and read the book again to see how good my memory was. My memory was pretty good ... but not as good as the book.

This book was one among many books of short stories that have served to inspire my own writing. Until re-reading this book, I did not realize how much of this book and this writer I had incorporated into myself.

These are all true to life tales of childhood (granting poetic license) and growing up on the West Coast, in Fresno, California way back when. The stories are about mom, dad, grandpa, and uncle Khosrove and the author's unique immigrant heritage.

I grew up decades later on the East Coast in an old industrial mill town - nothing like the rural settings in this book. But other than replacing a "borrowed" car with a stolen pony, the humor and the sentiments are all universal. Today as I review this book, the movie "My Big, Fat Greek Wedding" comes to mind. The immigrant nature, the humorous relatives, the contrasting values and the crazy antics and situations brought together by life in the new country are common to the book and the movie.

Two of the stories that I never forgot are "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" and "Old Country Advice to the American Traveler."

"A Nice Old-Fashioned Romance" isn't bad either.The only thing bad about this book is maybe you haven't read it yet.

The writing is cleaver, entertaining, humorous and spun through with simple wisdom. In this modern copy I have, I have noticed that the punctuation is rather radical. There are no quotation marks used. Rather strange but easily readable nonetheless. I didn't notice that 50 years ago when I read this book the first time. But there are many things quite evident today that I didn't notice 50 years ago.

Not many people write books like this these days. Writing has become too sophisticated. There are no monsters from outer space, no demons, no devils, no spirits or ghosts. There are no serial killers, perverts or criminal insanity. Nobody eats any children in this book. No one flies on a broomstick in this book. There are no spells or even "little people." I suppose the younger crowd would find it boring.
I have always loved it ... and still do.

Books written by Richard Noble - The Hobo Philosopher:
"Hobo-ing America: A Workingman's Tour of the U.S.A.."
"A Summer with Charlie" Salisbury Beach, Lawrence YMCA
"A Little Something: Poetry and Prose
"Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother" Novel - Lawrence, Ma.
"The Eastpointer" Selections from award winning column.
"Noble Notes on Famous Folks" Humor - satire - facts.
"America on Strike" American Labor - History

Looking back in time...
This is Saroyan's collections of short stories from his youth in the early 1900's.The stories are a glimpse of life through the eyes of a young, first generation boy.Entertaining and perceptive. ... Read more

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Where to find god in the 20th century? A sleezy bar
All of humanity comes through this bar and they all come before Nick, who helps everyone.This is a well crafted story of somewhat mythic proportions, of a somewhat impotent god and of the 20th century.Saroyan's brilliance at creating atmosphere makes up for the somewhat dated dialog and plots in this nearly perfect play. It is a play, however, can't escape this.Everything happens in one day, on one set, in one place.By the end, one feels exhausted but somehow hopeful. ... Read more

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The story of an American family in wartime. ... Read more

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What a wonderful America
"When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before, you see more in you than there was before." Clifton Fadiman

The Macauley family moved into my life recently. They live in Ithaca (My Ithaca!)--a neighboring town in the formerly great country I used to live in. And what that family stands for is: through Ulysses, the joy of youth, of curiosity uncompromised; through Homer, the weighty satisfaction of responsibility accepted; through their mother the wisdom of life enjoyed, life endured.

In another memorable quote, Mr. Fadiman said good writers reveal themselves; great writers, the truth. Mr. Saroyan has done both here.

Sadly, this book seems to have aged. This family no longer lives in America; this America may no longer exist. What a wonderful past we must have had. Thank you Mr. Saroyan for preserving it.

Movie & Bookboth good
He writes so well - you are there - if you like the early 1900's you will love this - quick read -flows beautiful.

Gentle, Poignant, and Sincere: The Read of a Lifetime
Have you ever read a book that makes you want to go out into your community and better yourself, that makes you want to write a letter to an old friend, to call your family, to wander into the drug store on the corner and mingle in the conversation that is taking place there? Have you ever read a book that can make you buoyantly happy and tenderly sad, that can make you long for another time and place? Published in 1943, William Saroyan's "The Human Comedy" is such a book. A relic from a more innocent time in American history, Saroyan's short, simple novel is a portrait of human beings at their very best, and a message of sincere, unabashed hope.

Saroyan takes us into the California town of Ithaca, where fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is being pulled into manhood too early by forces he cannot control. With the father of the family dead, Homer is forced to work long hours delivering telegrams to support his family. This job brings him into contact with Mr. Grogan and Mr. Spangler, two of the warmest, kindest men ever to walk the face of the earth. They are his supervisors at the telegraph office and he learns a lot about life, work, and values from them. Homer's job also mixes him up with weighty subjects that he is perhaps too young for; as the messenger, he is responsible for delivering notices to mothers telling them that their sons have died in the war. While he is taking on all these adult responsibilities, Homer is still just a boy. He goes to school, is determined to win the track race, and is determined to woo the lovely Helen Elliot.

Despite the tragic death of his father, Homer's family remains close. His mother, Mrs. Macauley, exhibits quiet resolve and wisdom, and is there for her sons no matter what. His little brother, Ulysses, wanders innocently around the town and acts as a magnet for all the goings-on and eccentrics of Ithaca. Through his child's eyes, all the happenings and quirky encounters of a small 1940s town are recorded. Their sister, Bess, is a singer and looking for love as a young woman in the world. The oldest sibling, Marcus, is off at war, dreaming of his cherished homeland and sending letters back to his beloved family members. Homer looks up to Marcus greatly and only wishes he would come home.

Throughout "The Human Comedy," the reader is struck by the poignant human connections and above all, the strong undying force of love. There is so much love and pure human goodness in this book that it makes me, as a reader, want to go out into my world and be the best man I can be. True, the world nowadays is much more complicated than it was in the simpler time in which the book was written. Small towns are dying everywhere, a young boy can no longer wander the streets at his own pleasure, telegrams have long gone and even the heartfelt form of the letter has fallen out of fashion. Men and women everywhere have sped up the pace of their lives and are looking at the world through a materialistic perspective. But even in a changing world, we can all try to be the best human beings we can be, and maybe the beautiful portrait of a family and a community in "The Human Comedy" will not seem so far away. William Saroyan's magnificent novel will stay with you forever and ever.

The Human Comedy
This book speaks of today and what it [should] means to be American. Recommended reading!

Syrupy platitudes to assuage wartime worries
Written at the height of World War II, THE HUMAN COMEDY contains excellent sketches of small-town America and universal tales of childhood adventures.Everyone can identify with something here---stories of Homer and Ulysses Macauley who live in Ithaca (get it ?), California.Homer begins to work at the telegraph office delivering messages around town because his brother Marcus has been drafted and their father had died.Little Ulysses explores the world around.Various friends get up to mischief...stealing green apricots, arguing with teachers in school, trying to snare their friends in an old tennis net.The younger kids go on an expedition to the library, which opens a world of books.Homer interacts with spoiled rich kids and a prostitute.We meet a would-be bandit too, who is not 'read his rights' but treated humanely despite his faults.The office manager falls in love with a spoiled girl whose character is hardly developed at all.Homer has to deliver the War Department messages informing families of the deaths of their sons.All this contains a very kind view of humanity and childhood, a kind of unquestioning loyalty to the idea that 'life is beautiful'.The book is filled with syrupy philosophy of a very unoriginal kind.It's too sweet, too uncynical even for me, a rather romantic person at heart.Americans were going through the trauma of a war, thousands of men were being killed and wounded every month.I can easily understand why a book like this would have helped people forget their anxieties and worries for a while.Unfortunately, that doesn't make it great literature.Platitudes and homilies galore are what you are going to find if you try this novel, a work that would have ranked high up there if they had been omitted.
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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. ... Read more

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saroyan and amazon
William Saroyan short stories.
Rather than reviewing the book, which hasn't arrived yet, as i am certain it's great, I'd like to tell all the English readers how lucky you are being able to get all this wonderful British and English literature through amazon. As myself, a Mexican living in México find it difficult to get all the good writers translated at once, for example, this Saroyan book. Also, through amazon, i got "the bread of those early years" by Heinrich Böll. I had to read it in english because his books in spanish are now not very easy to find.so ... thanks to amazon.com

SAROYAN AGAIN AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
I first read the stories in this collection from 1956 to 1961. They are as great as ever with "The Adventures of Wesley Jackson" having a whole new meaning and as beautiful,warm and poetic as always. (Why don't they make a TV series out of Wesley Jackson?)

What a great gift idea for Saroyan fans and those who have never had the pleasure of reading one of his stories. The stories were selected by Saroyan himself and there is an introduction by his son Aram. The collection includes some of my alltime favorites such as "The Man With His Heart In The Highlands," and "70,000 Assyrians," and also his Pulitzer Prize winning "The Time of Your Life." (Be sure to read the speech he gave when he turned down the award.)

I bought it to take on a trip and it was a fond companion. Well worth the investment. Enjoy!

Caught in the grind of every day life...
William Saroyan was a great American author of short stories, short novels, plays and poetry. As an Armenian-American from Fresno, California, many of his stories touch upon that background; but there is much more in Saroyan. He writes about simple, ordinary everyday people (anti-heroes), caught in the grind of every day life.

His most outstanding works are presented in this anthology including: "Saroyan Prizes", "70,000 Assyrians", "A Cold Day", "The Living and the Dead", "Finlandia" and "A Writer's Declaration". Every one of these works is existential, pondering love, art, war, peace and prosperity. The characters are your real, everyday people taken out of thier mundane circumstances that most of us face daily.

Saroyan's eloquent but essentially simple style makes for easy but reflective reading.

Perfect intro to Saroyan
This book does a great job of introducing you to the writings of William Saroyan.His novels, plays and short stories capture life in a succinct style I have never seen repeated.My favorite are his short stories, which I never want to stop reading.In a few pages he brings characters, events and places to life.

Surprisingly strong stories
William Saroyan is a wonderful writer for would-be writers to take a deeper look at. Not because his prose is so wonderful or because his stories are so engaging, but because he states most succinctly what every writer feels. That, though they have plenty of written pages, they feel like they have said nothing at all. And if Saroyan can feel this way and still produce what he has, well, there is hope then.

"Oranges" and "Finlandia" are the stand-out pieces in the collection as far as I'm concerned, though many others have a thought or two that linger. "Oranges" is heartbreaking, a story about a little orphan boy forced to sell oranges on the street corner, a little orphan boy who doesn't know what it is to laugh. And "Finlandia" deals with the idea of time and geography in a very thought provoking and musical manner. Many images and sounds are striking.

I was rather surprised myself that I liked Saroyan's work and ended up keeping the book when I had thought to donate it to a local library. ... Read more

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Along with Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan—winner of a Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Time of Your Life and an Academy Award for the screenplay of The Human Comedy,—was the most well-known American writer of the 1930s and 1940s. Peabody Award-winning journalist Lawrence Lee and award-winning novelist Barry Gifford heard Saroyan's story first-hand from Carol Matthau, the wife he rejected; the son and daughter he alternately smothered and pushed away; and colleagues like Artie Shaw, Celeste Holm, and Lillian Gish. Their revelations bring new depth to Saroyan's riveting story. ... Read more

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Human and true
Saroyan at his best. Touching and funny short stories. Already lent it and lost it to someone who liked it even more. ... Read more

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Produced by Eddie Dowling at the Belasco Theatre, September 29,1942. For 3 males and 2 females. The setting is a little jailhouse in Matador Texas. ... Read more

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William Saroyan’s gift to literature was his humanity. In his five-decades ofshort stories, novels, and plays, he saw exuberance where others found sorrowand lived a life that was richer and stranger than his fictions. Despite hisworldwide fame and his years living in Europe, Saroyan’s mind never wanderedfar from the Fresno, California of his childhood, or his Armenian heritage, andFresno is the inspiration behind most of his greatest works. The EssentialSaroyan brings together the most acclaimed stories as well as a few surprisesfrom one of California’s major writers.

Beloved of Armenians everywhere and the only man to win and turn down the Pulitzer Prize, Saroyan’s legacy endures today. His work exalts the mysteries of youth, ponders the impossibility of love, speaks to this strange condition of being alive, and above all, declaresthat the duty of a writer is to have one hell of a good time. ... Read more

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He was so famous that Saroyanesque entered the vocabulary of his time, an adjective expressing the childlike sweetness, the evocation of loneliness, the innocence that characterized his work.

His name was known to anyone in America who read a magazine, listened to the radio, cared about theater, or bought a book. At one time he had three plays simultaneously on Broadway, including My Heart’s in the Highlands and The Time of Your Life (which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics’ Circle Award). His first collection of stories, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, was published by Bennett Cerf when Saroyan was twenty-six years old; it was a critical and commercial success. Saroyan went to Hollywood and wrote The Human Comedy over a Christmas holiday; it became a major wartime movie and won him an Oscar for best screenplay.
His writing was a mixture of old-world suffering and new-world optimism. But for all of his promise and brilliance, and his half-century struggle to reach the pantheon of American writers, his gift was not large enough to sustain him.

Now, in this full-scale biography, John Leggett gives us Saroyan whole, from the immigrant boy and his lonely orphanage years to the internationally acclaimed American writer. Here is the all-encompassing story
—the fun, the follies, the lights, and the shadows of his life.

Leggett writes about Saroyan’s roller-coaster courtship and two marriages to the beautiful Carol Marcus (she was seventeen and he thirty-four when they met); about his relationships with his publishers and with his long-time agent, Hal Matson; about his friendships with Budd Schulberg, Irwin Shaw, George Jean Nathan, and others, and the many productions (on Broadway and off) of Saroyan’s plays. He writes about Saroyan’s constant struggle with his addictions to gambling and extravagant living . . . his disappointments as a writer and his undiminished belief in his own talent, a belief that it would prevail, no matter how many colleagues turned away from his excesses and his demands.

Drawing on interviews and on Saroyan’s letters, notes, and diaries, John Leggett, author of Ross and Tom (“A great book”—Leon Edel), gives us a revealing portrait of the man and the writer whose work charmed and touched the heart of mid-twentieth-century America. ... Read more

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Well written, entertaining and original
I enjoyed the author's style, it was original and well written. It is more than a biography, it explores Saroyan's highly obsessive and speculative mind. ... Read more

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Not Dying is perhaps the most affecting of the series of memoirs that compriseplaywright, short-story writer, and novelist William Saroyan's career.

A stylistically innovative amalgam of present tense narrative and memoir, this is a workunlike anything Saroyan has written.It is the only book which also features 25 line drawings bythe author and a new introduction by the author's son, Aram Saroyan. ... Read more

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