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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze Paperback - 1997

Name: The Daring Young Man On the Flying Trapeze
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Author: Saroyan, William,
ISBN: 9780811213653

by William Saroyan

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Pulitzer Prize-winning William Saroyan always wrote about humanity on a human scale. He was one of the first American writers in this century to focus attention on immigrant communities. The protagonists in THE DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE are Armenian, Jewish, Chinese, Polish, African, or Irish. The collection was first published in 1934.

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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.

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Title The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
Author William Saroyan
Binding Paperback
Pages 272
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Publication date 1997-10-17
Features Table of Contents
ISBN 9780811213653 / 081121365X
Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
Dimensions 8 x 5.25 x 0.72 in (20.32 x 13.34 x 1.83 cm)
Category Fiction - General
Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs -, Armenian Americans - Fiction
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97011718
Dewey Decimal Code FIC