Madness in the Family

Informationen zum Autor William Saroyan (1908-1981) was born in Fresno, California. Famous for a long and voluminous career, he wrote novels, along with some sixteen story collections, and plays including The Human Comedy (winning an Academy Award for his screenplay), and The Time of Your Life, for which he won the Drama Critics Circle and Pulitzer Prizes. He wrote about "the archetypal Armenian families who inhabit Saroyan country, in and around Fresno, California. [And yet with their] unpredictable charm and wacky spontaneity ... his characters overflow with so much human comedy that they transcend all ethnic boundaries, as in the stories of I.B. Singer" (The Chicago Tribune). Klappentext A collection of short stories that were originally published in the 1960s and 1970s in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's. Zusammenfassung A collection of short stories that were originally published in the 1960s and 1970s in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's.

Product details

• Authors: Leo Hamalian, William Saroyan
• Assisted by: Leo Hamalian (Editor), William Saroyan (Editor)
• Publisher: New Directions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.1990
• EAN: 9780811211291
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-1129-1
• No. of pages: 158
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 11 mm
• Series: New Directions Paperbook; New Directions Paperbook
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies