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William Saroyan’s gift to literature was his humanity. In his five-decades of short stories, novels, and plays, he saw exuberance where others found sorrow and lived a life that was richer and stranger than his fictions. Despite his worldwide fame and his years living in Europe, Saroyan’s mind never wandered far from the Fresno, California of his childhood, or his Armenian heritage, and Fresno is the inspiration behind most of his greatest works. The Essential Saroyan brings together the most acclaimed stories as well as a few surprises from one of California’s major writers.
William Saroyan’s gift to literature was his humanity. In his five-decades of short stories, novels, and plays, he saw exuberance where others found sorrow and lived a life that was richer and stranger than his fictions. Despite his worldwide fame and his years living in Europe, Saroyan’s mind never wandered far from the Fresno, California of his childhood, or his Armenian heritage, and Fresno is the inspiration behind most of his greatest works. The Essential Saroyan brings together the most acclaimed stories as well as a few surprises from 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, declares that the duty of a writer is to have one hell of a good time.
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old telegraph operator, coffee tasters, cash register rings, daring young man Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Otto Seyfang, Laura Luthy, San Francisco, New York, Ezra Pound, Warren Street, Tasting Department, Chief Bly, General Antranik, Thomas Tracy, Miss Hicks, John Byro, Saint Patrick, Wesley Jackson, Fifth Avenue, Johnny Merryweather, Theodore Badal, County Hospital, Homer Macauley, Saturday Evening Post, Art Pliley, John Wynstanley, Madison Avenue, Private Jackson, Carl Street New!
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- My Name is Aram by William Saroyan on page 3, and Back Matter
- The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze: And Other Stories (New Directions Classic) by William Saroyan on page 4, and Back Matter
- The Human Comedy by William Saroyan on page 117, and Back Matter
- Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway on page 7, and page 11
- The adventures of Wesley Jackson by William Saroyan on page 5, and Back Matter
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