The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (Faber Editions) - Introduced by Stephen Fry

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

• Authors: William Saroyan
• Assisted by: Stephen Fry (Introduction), Fry Stephen (Introduction)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.11.2024
• EAN: 9780571383481
• ISBN: 978-0-571-38348-1
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Faber Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Short Stories, Classic fiction: general and literary