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In this work, the author tells how Saroyan transformed the short story by personalizing it and by loosening the structure of the novella form. He went on to bring new life to the theater and to the telling of autobiography. Better than that of any recent drama critic, Balakian's chapters on the theater place Saroyan's plays in the larger framework of the American theater of his time and achieve the creation of a total picture of the state of the American...

William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981) was an American dramatist and author. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film adaptation of his novel The Human Comedy. An Armenian American, Saroyan wrote extensively about the Armenian immigrant life in California. Many of his stories and plays are set in his native Fresno. Some of his best-known works are The Time of Your...

Personal memoirs of his childhood and youth with a disillusioned glance at his present life, his tax troubles, his obsessive gambling, and his humor turned sour.

This book is a homage to the dead.

Follows writer William Saroyan from his harsh youth in an orphanage, through his early literary successes and two marriages to Carol Marcus, to his rise to the heights of literary fame and dramatic fall at the end of his life.

Shares stories of childhood as seen through the eyes of a young Armenian boy in Fresno, California.

The place is Ithaca, in California's San Joaquin Valley. The time is World War II. The family is the Macauleys -- a mother, sister, and three brothers whose struggles and dreams reflect those of America's second-generation immigrants... In particular, fourteen-year-old Homer, determined to become one of the fastest telegraph messengers in the West, finds himself caught between reality and illusion as delivering his messages of wartime death, love,...

Collection of hitherto unpublished critical essays on American fiction, poetry, and drama of the 1930's.