The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

New York, NY: Modern Library / Modern Age Books. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1937. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. This book is in Very Good- condition and a Very Good- dust jacket. The book is in generally clean, solid condition. The book covers are clean and bright. The text pages have noticeable, generalized toning and edge nicking. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. The dedication page is disbound, but present. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, wiht some light toning at the edges, several small edge nicks and chips (mostly to the spine ends) and some rubbing to the spine ends and corners. "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 American writers to describe the immigrant experience in the U. S. , Saroyan created characters who were Armenians, Jews, Chinese, Poles, Africans, and the Irish. The title story touchingly portrays the thoughts of a very young writer, dying of starvation. All of the tales were written during the great depression and reflect, through pathos and humor, the mood of the nation in one of its greatest times of want." "William Saroyan(August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. 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 Life, My Name Is Aram and My Heart's in the Highlands." (from Wikipedia) .