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  • The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (Faber Editions)

    Introduced by Stephen Fry

    by William Saroyan ...
    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.'Depression-era San Francisco, home to the lost souls of many races: immigrants, struggling writers and heartsick ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Laughing Matter

    by William Saroyan ...
    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 they arrive for the long awaited holiday, Swan, Evan's wife, announces that she is expecting a child … who is not fathered by Evan.This news shocks and hurts ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

    by William Saroyan ...
    Series series New Directions Classic
    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 Saroyan flew across the literary skies in 1934 with the publication of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories. One of the first ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Boys and Girls Together

    by William Saroyan ...
    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 it is. Dick is a respected writer, with a beautiful young wife, and two children who he adores. So why isn't he happy? And why isn't his wife, Daisy, happy ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Chance Meetings

    A Memoir

    by William Saroyan ...
    In his touching and amusing memoir Chance Meetings, William Saroyan gives us a glimpse of the characters that have left an indelible impression on his mind for years to come. From the Armenian neighbourhood of his childhood to the Parisian streets of his formative years, we meet the people that have inspired, perplexed, angered and enamoured him. We meet finely drawn personalities like the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Fresno Stories

    by William Saroyan ...
    Series series New Directions Bibelot
    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 from New Directions' collections of Saroyan's early stories (The Man With the Heart In the Highlands) and his later work (Madness In the Family), Fresno ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Rock Wagram

    by William Saroyan ...
    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 failure is a fool. The man who does not laugh at these things is a bore.Arak Vagramian, a handsome son of Armenian immigrants, contended with his small-town ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Yokohama, California

    by Toshio Mori ...
    Series series Classics of Asian American Literature
    Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s.Replaces ISBN 9780295961675 ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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    A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

    by Brenda Ueland ...
    THE GRAYWOLF BESTSELLER NOW AVAILABLE IN EBOOK FORMBut we must try to find our True Conscience, our True Self, the very Center, for this is the only first-rate choice-making center. Here lies all originality, talent, honor, truthfulness, courage and cheerfulness. Here lies the ability to choose the good and the grand, the true and the beautiful.In her ninety-three remarkable years, Brenda Ueland ... Read more

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  • The Company She Keeps

    A Novel

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    The celebrated author of The Group offers a "clever, witty, polished" portrait of the 1940s NYC literary bohemia she knew so well in this debut novel ( The New York Times).Margaret Sargent is young and fearless, a deep thinker inspired by the bohemian energy that abounds in New York City in the years leading up to the Second World War. With careless abandon, she destroys her marriage and numerous ... Read more

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  • The 50s: The Story of a Decade

    by The New Yorker Magazine, Elizabeth Bishop, Truman Capote ...
    Series series New Yorker: The Story of a Decade
    This engrossing anthology assembles classic New Yorker pieces from a complex era enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and Cold War paranoia—featuring contributions from Philip Roth, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer, and Adrienne Rich, along with fresh analysis of the 1950s by some of today’s finest writers.The New Yorker was there in real time, chronicling the tensions ... Read more

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  • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

    by Peter Handke ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    "My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide."So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost ... Read more

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