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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( S ) : Saroyan, William
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A novel of an American family in wartime.
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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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This is the most complete and generous sampling of the first half of an indispensable American writer's career.
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William Saroyan's most celebrated work of short fiction- a boy's view of the American Dream. Aram Garoghlanian was a Californian, born in Fresno on the other side of the Southern Pacific tracks. But he was also part of a large, sprawling family of immigrant Armenians--a whole tribe of eccentric uncles, brawling cousins, and gentle women. Through these unforgettable, often hilarious characters Aram comes to understand life, courage, and the power of dreams. Whether it is fierce Uncle Khosrove who yells "Pay no attention to it" in any situation, Uncle Melik, who tries to grow pomegranate trees in the desert, or angelic-looking Cousin Arak who gets Arma into classroom scrapes, Aram's visions are shaped and colored by this tum-of-the-century clan. Like Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, William Saroyan's brilliant short stories in My Name Is Aram work together to create a picture of a time, a place, and a boy's world-a truly classic account of an impoverished family newly arrived in America-rich in matters of the heart.
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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.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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Provoked by the Variety obits column, Saroyan is at his best in this playful but often sardonic review of personalities from Busby Berkeley to Agatha Christie to Howard Hughes.
Nominated for the American Book Award.
Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times.
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Even though they know the painful consequences that await them, Aram and Joey cannot resist skipping school the day that the circus comes to town.
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Not Dying is perhaps the most affecting of the series of memoirs that comprise playwright, short-story writer, and novelist William Saroyan's career.A stylistically innovative amalgam of present tense narrative and memoir, this is a work unlike anything Saroyan has written. It is the only book which also features 25 line drawings by the author and a new introduction by the author's son, Aram Saroyan.
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After being caught shoplifting, eleven-year-old Al feels humiliated and tries to recapture his self-respect.
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Written with Saroyan's trademark clarity and compassion, Boys and Girls Together is a richly comedic portrayal of a couple caught in the toils of marriage with children. A masterful novel of human folly, it focuses on the eagerness of men and women to be something other than themselves.Saroyan is a startlingly honest writer with an uncluttered style and a uniquely distanced vision of American life. His work gave rise to a new word, "Saroyanesque," and influenced Jack Kerouac and Sean Penn, among others.
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Here is Saroyan at the top of his form--the unmistakable voice in all its resonant variety--setting out to tell the story of his life.In superbly rendered scenes from his life as an orphan, schoolboy, newspaper-boy, messenger, fledgling writer, family misfit, world famous writer, man-about-town, husband, and father, this book gives us the characteristic fluency of Saroyan at his best, and it introduces a new emotional depth that was to become a hallmark of the writer's later work.
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Responding to his own Obituaries, Saroyan uses the mystery of birth as the occasion for exploring his wideranging thoughts on any and all subjects.
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Late in life Saroyan wrote: “In 1943 I turned my back on Broadway, but I did not stop writing plays… I wrote new plays every year… and they are part of the real American theatre, and of the real world theatre, even though they have not been produced, performed, and witnessed.”
In fact, William Saroyan left some 150 unpublished plays, two of which are offered here. Typically Saroyan in their graceful, acrobatic use of language, these plays have a breadth, a universality, and a somber outlook rarely seen in his works. Warsaw Visitor is a retelling of the Faust legend with Saroyan himself as Faust. Tales from the Vienna Streets finds Saroyan making a rare excursion into the sociopolitical arena. Both plays merit performance and critique.
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