The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (Faber Editions)

Name: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (Faber Editions)
Brand: Faber & Faber
SKU: 9780571383481-V
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By William Saroyan

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A Lost Great American Master: meet Jack Kerouac''s inspiration in these heart-expanding tales of immigrant life in 1930s USA, introduced by superfan Stephen Fry. JACK KEROUAC: ''I loved him ... He just got me'' ARTHUR MILLER: ''The first to let it all hang out and write like a child in wonderland.'' KURT VONNEGUT: ''Still the greatest.'' JOSEPH HELLER: ''My primary inspiration.'' STEPHEN FRY: ''One of the most underrated writers of the century.'' I hadn''t had a haircut in forty days and forty nights, and I was beginning to look like several violinists out of work. 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.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 256
Release Date:: 2024-11-07
Publication Date:: 2024-11-07
Publisher:: Faber & Faber
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0571383483
ISBN13:: 9780571383481
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 222 g
Height:: 133 cm
Width:: 199 cm
Thickness:: 20 cm

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