Homer è un ragazzino pieno di entusiasmo. La sua famiglia è modesta, le difficoltà sono tante: il babbo è morto e il fratello maggiore è partito per la Seconda guerra mondiale. Eppure tutti si dedicano con energia a quel che va fatto, la mamma alle galline come all’arpa, la sorella agli studi e al pianoforte, e Ulysses è il fratellino più curioso del mondo. Homer, che ha assunto il ruolo di capofamiglia, di giorno frequenta il liceo, la sera si tuffa in bicicletta alla volta dell’ufficio d...

When Evan Nazarenus returns from a teaching post at the summer school in Nebraska, he cannot wait for a couple of blissful weeks spent with his wife and two children in Clovis, a small town where his brother has a summer house.But soon after they arrive for the long awaited holiday, Swan, Evan's wife, announces that she is expecting a child … who is not fathered by Evan.This news shocks and hurts Evan deeply, but for his children's sake he decides to keep it to himself throug...

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...

In his touching and amusing memoir Chance Meetings, William Saroyan gives us a glimpse of the characters that have left an indelible impression on his mind for years to come. From the Armenian neighbourhood of his childhood to the Parisian streets of his formative years, we meet the people that have inspired, perplexed, angered and enamoured him. We meet finely drawn personalities like the Armenian Cabinet maker, that planed wood whilst his mind composed beautiful poems, who would...

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.'Depression-era San Francisco, home to the lost souls of many races: immigrants, struggling writers and heartsick adolescents,...

Bitlis’ten Amerika’ya göç etmiş Ermeni bir ailenin ilk ferdi olarak 31 Ağustos 1908’de California eyaletinin Fresno kasabasında dünyaya gelen William Saroyan, ardında altmışı aşkın edebi eser ve “Saroyanesk” olarak bilinen edebi bir tarz bıraktı. Amerikan edebiyatının en iyi öykü, roman ve oyun yazarlarından biri kabul edilen Saroyan’ın ilk kez 1951 yılında New York’da basılan romanı Rock Wagram, ilk kez Türkçe okurla buluşuyor!Fresno’daki Şişko Aram’ın Yeri’nde barmenlik yapan yi...

Un pezzetto di banjo in otto ottavi, uno due tre quattro cinque sei sette otto, scandisce un amore nato nell’ufficio del telegrafo, nutre il sogno di una casa, nel calore del sole, la speranza di un’eternità che non sia soltanto fantasia.Harry era fatto per vendere: sapeva cavar soldi praticamente da tutto. Anche sul letto di morte cercava di appioppare agli amici assicurazioni sulla vita.Poi un bambino costretto a ridere per punizione, una vecchia piegata ad angolo retto, se...

All his life a man fights death, and then at last loses the fight, always having known he would. Loneliness is every man's portion, and failure. The man who seeks to escape from loneliness is a lunatic. The man who does not know that all is failure is a fool. The man who does not laugh at these things is a bore.Arak Vagramian, a handsome son of Armenian immigrants, contended with his small-town bar-tending job in Fresno, is one day spotted by a Hollywood filmmaker. Althoug...

Den armensk-amerikanske forfatter William Saroyan udgav gennem hele sin karriere regelmæssigt tekster i ”The Armenian Review” og andre armenske tidsskrifter. Selvom teksterne kvalitetsmæssigt var fuldt ud på højde med hans øvrige forfatterskab, blev de sjældent læst af andre end tidsskrifternes læsere.En del af de glemte tekster er samlet her i ”Sommerlatter og andre historier”. I centrum for teksterne står barbersalonen – den sociale institution, der er så uhyre vigtig for armener...

America in the 1960's; a golden time for the family, when children behaved, wives stayed at home and men wore suits to work. But in all this perfection, reality, life, relationships and people can't help but expose this idyll for the lie that it is. Dick is a respected writer, with a beautiful young wife, and two children who he adores. So why isn't he happy? And why isn't his wife, Daisy, happy either? Maintaining his marriage and earning enough to bring up his kids is hard enoug...

Öyküleri dergiler tarafından sürekli reddedilen hevesli ama meteliksiz bir yazar adayının hayatında bir gün bir mucize gerçekleşti ve “Uçan Trapezdeki Cesur Genç Adam” başlıklı öyküsü dönemin en gözde dergilerinden Story’de basıldı. Yıl 1933’tü ve Story editörlerinin adı William, soyadı Saroyan olan ve pes etmek nedir bilmeyen bu delikanlıdan çekeceği vardı. Onlara, bir ay boyunca her gün yeni bir öykü yazıp dergiye ulaştıracağına dair bir mektup gönderdi ve bu zorlayıcı görevi yirmi altı ...

Eleven of William Saroyan's most delightful tales, Fresno Stories springs straight from the source of the author's vision—"the archetypal Armenian families who inhabit Saroyan country, in and around Fresno, California." (Chicago Tribune)Selected from New Directions' collections of Saroyan's early stories (The Man With the Heart In the Highlands) and his later work (Madness In the Family), Fresno Stories spans his whole r...