In "A Daring Young Man, " readers have the full story--the fun, the follies, the lights, and the shadows of Saroyan's life. Drawing on interviews and on Saroyan's letters, notes, and diaries, Leggett, author of "Ross and Tom" ("A great book" -- Leon Edel), gives a revelation of the man and the writer whose work charmed and touched the heart of mid-20th century America.
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In "A Daring Young Man, " readers have the full story--the fun, the follies, the lights, and the shadows of Saroyan's life. Drawing on interviews and on Saroyan's letters, notes, and diaries, Leggett, author of "Ross and Tom" ("A great book" -- Leon Edel), gives a revelation of the man and the writer whose work charmed and touched the heart of mid-20th century America.
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Fine Condition in Fine jacket. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0375413014. ISBN/EAN: 9780375413018. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 22874.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 462 pages, gray boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with original price.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in FINE Condition. Mylar jacket cover. 6.5" x 9.5" tall. 462 pages. B/W photos. Very nice volume in gray half cloth w/silver titles, grey boards, in immaculate condition. Known to readers of magazines, listeners of the radio, loves of the theatre, readers of books--his play "The Time of Your Life" won the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics' Circle Award. His writing was a mixture of old-world suffering and new world optimism. Here is his full scale biography, from the immigrant boy and his lonely orphanage years to an internationally acclaimed American writer. 462 pages w/Notes and Index. 8vo. 2002, Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
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Like New in Fine jacket. Size: 6x1x9; He was so famous that Saroyanesque entered the vocabulary of his time, an adjective expressing the childlike sweetness, the evocation of loneliness, the innocence that characterized his work. His name was known to anyone in America who read a magazine, listened to the radio, cared about theater, or bought a book. At one time he had three plays simultaneously on Broadway, including My Heart's in the Highlands and The Time of Your Life (which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics' Circle Award). His first collection of stories, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, was published by Bennett Cerf when Saroyan was twenty-six years old; it was a critical and commercial success. Saroyan went to Hollywood and wrote The Human Comedy over a Christmas holiday; it became a major wartime movie and won him an Oscar for best screenplay.
