false<![CDATA[The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze: And Other Stories (New Directions Classic)]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167945792m/28302.jpg283024A 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 <I>The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories</I>. 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.28855book101934The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze: And Other Stories (New Directions Classic)total:141|5:68|4:52|3:15|2:6|1:0|1416051942144falsefalseWed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009Sat Apr 25 05:09:25 -0700 2009Sat May 09 05:28:43 -0700 2009
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Merely to be standing, merely to be breathing that day was a truth in the nature of an inexplicable miracle. After all these years, I thought ... I myself standing here in the darkness, breathing, knowing that I live. I wanted to say something in language, with t...
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He was amazed at himself suddenly; it had occurred to him to let the snake flee, to let it glide away and be lost in the lowly worlds of its kind. Why should he allow it to escape?
He lifted a heavy boulder from the ground and thought: Now I shall bash your head and see you die. To destro...more...]]>
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This is also one of the best views of the Depression from the ground floor you'll ever see. "Try to learn to ...more...]]>
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Hard to find, not read enough..
This is beautiful, hadji bakara hipped me to it...
Saroyan just got the nail on the head with the hammer here; simple totally unigue tales of a 1940s broke ass young writer in a little flat tapping away on his type writer... the beats totally ...more...]]>
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40falsefalseWed Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2005Sat Apr 26 20:55:31 -0700 2008Sat Apr 26 20:57:46 -0700 2008 For those of you who'd like to do a little arm-chair psychology -- my favorite story from this collection is "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8" because it describes my personal relationships to a T.]]>
50falsefalseTue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1976Thu Feb 28 07:29:41 -0800 2008Fri Feb 29 06:02:13 -0800 2008 The first was: "What difference does it make what you call it? Just so it breathes."
And the second was: "Learn to type as fast as Zane Grey."]]>
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