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The daring young man on the flying trapeze by Saroyan, William

The daring young man on the flying trapeze by Saroyan, William

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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'--

Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication date: 2024-11-07
Pages: 252
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780571383481-N
Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 mm
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