The Human Comedy

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the human comedy
by William Saroyan
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The Human Comedy, Saroyan's first novel, is the story of an American family in wartime, and in particular of Homer Macauley, the fastest messenger in San Joaquin valley.
With all the qualities of warmth, cheer, and humanity which have endeared Saroyan to his reading public. The Human Comedy abounds in unforgettable scenes. Homer running the Two-Twenty hurdles; little Ulysses imprisoned in the bear trap in Covington's store; old-time telegraph operator Willie Grogan, with a bottle in the desk drawer to fuzz the sharp reality of the ever flowing messages of love and hope and pain and death; Spangler, with a love for the whole world and every living thing; Homer's older brother Marcus singing, as the troop train in which he sits hurtles away from home.
Saroyan has done many things, but he has here done something which even his oldest friends scarcely dared to predict— a wartime novel of the home front which succeeds in capturing,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

the human comedy
by William Saroyan
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The Human Comedy, Saroyan's first novel, is the story of an American family in wartime, and in particular of Homer Macauley, the fastest messenger in San Joaquin valley.
With all the qualities of warmth, cheer, and humanity which have endeared Saroyan to his reading public. The Human Comedy abounds in unforgettable scenes. Homer running the Two-Twenty hurdles; little Ulysses imprisoned in the bear trap in Covington's store; old-time telegraph operator Willie Grogan, with a bottle in the desk drawer to fuzz the sharp reality of the ever flowing messages of love and hope and pain and death; Spangler, with a love for the whole world and every living thing; Homer's older brother Marcus singing, as the troop train in which he sits hurtles away from home.
Saroyan has done many things, but he has here done something which even his oldest friends scarcely dared to predict— a wartime novel of the home front which succeeds in capturing, and which nowhere oversteps, the modesty of ordinary human beings. It is a very simple novel. It is a very great achievement.
With jacket and many drawings by Don Freeman
my name is aram
by William Saroyan
"Perceplive, humorous, imaginative, original. I should vote for this story of an Armenian boyhood as the most truly American book of the year."—Hknry .SKn)KL Can by.
"Aram Garoghlanian is a Huck Finn with a foreign name. He runs away from school when the circus comes to town; he has encounters with crazy grocers; he defies his irate teachers: he goes swimming in winter; and he astounds the Health Officer by inhaling for four minutes and then exhaling for three. Saroyan's rendering of these anecdotes is characteristically exuberant, and there are fine comic strokes in all of them."— N. Y. Sun.
"All of it has that unmistakable Saroyan gusto, his sweetness, his humor, his braggadocio, and that mysterious Welt-schmerz which pervades his best humor and is his most special possession."— N. Y. Herald Tribune Books.
"Mr. Saroyan justifies all the promise we predicted for him and shows himself the grown and many-colored artist; the genuine poet in prose, and spokesman for the youth of the world."—Chris-tophkr MoRI.EY.
Illustrated by Don Freeman
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