The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (New Directions Classic)

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (New Directions Classic)
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 9780811225335
ISBN-13 : 081122533X
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Book Synopsis The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (New Directions Classic) by : William Saroyan

Download or read book The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (New Directions Classic) written by William Saroyan and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997-10-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saroyan’s debut collection of stories. 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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