William Saroyan

• Jul-1944
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Hailed by "The New York Times" as "marvelously captivating," William Saroyan's 1940 international bestseller recounts the exploits of an Armenian clan in northern California at the turn of the twentieth century. Based on the author's loving and eccen...

• Jan-1956
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While her mother struggles for a big break on Broadway, nine-year-old Frog wishes they were back in California and dreams of playing baseball, until the surprising news comes that a producer wants Frog for his new play...

• 1974
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• Nov-1989
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The inspiration for the major motion picture Ithaca, directed by and starring Meg Ryan—with a cast that includes Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater, Alex Neustaedter, Jack Quaid, and Tom HanksThe place is Ithaca, in California's San Joaquin Valley. ...

• May-1990
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What a delight to find seventeen of Saroyan s uncollected stories within one cover ....charming tales, all blessed with Saroyan s pixieish imagination and magical writing style .Even today they read as though they have been freshly minted from the Sa...

• Jun-1992
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Gathered in The Man with the Heart in the Highlands are sixteen stories from William Saroyan’s most celebrated literary period, culled from several long out-of-print collections from the 1930s and ’40s, While achieving meteoric ...

• Dec-1994
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Eleven of William Saroyan's most delightful tales, Fresno Stories springs straight from the source of the author's vision -- "the archetypal Armenian families who inhabit Saroyan country, in and around Fresno, California." (Chicago Tribune) Selected ...

• Nov-1997
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Saroyan’s debut collection of stories. A timeless selection of brilliant short stories that won William Saroyan a position among the foremost, most widely popular writers of America when it first appeared in 1934.With the greatest of ease William S...

• Mar-2007
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

• Dec-2014
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America in the 1960's; a golden time for the family, when children behaved, wives stayed at home and men wore suits to work. But in all this perfection, reality, life, relationships and people can't help but expose this idyll for the lie that...

• Dec-2014
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When Evan Nazarenus returns from a teaching post at the summer school in Nebraska, he cannot wait for a couple of blissful weeks spent with his wife and two children in Clovis, a small town where his brother has a summer house.
But soon after th...

• Dec-2014
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All his life a man fights death, and then at last loses the fight, always having known he would. Loneliness is every man's portion, and failure. The man who seeks to escape from loneliness is a lunatic. The man who does not know that all is failu...