The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (Faber Editions)
Introduced by Stephen Fry
Faber Editions
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 256
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Faber Editions
- EAN: 9780571383481
- Utgivelsesår: 2024
- Bidragsyter: Saroyan, William
169,-
A Lost Great American Master: meet Jack Kerouac's inspiration in these heart-expanding tales of immigrant life in 1930s USA, introduced by superfan Stephen Fry. 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.'I hadn't had a haircut in forty days and forty nights, and I was beginning to look like several violinists out of work. Depression-era San Francisco, home to the lost souls of many races: immigrants, struggling writers and heartsick adolescents, collecting in automats, nightschools, movies and barbershops, working in vineyards, telegram exchanges and as salesmen - and always revelling in being alive. A bestseller on publication in 1934, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze was the debut collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning (and rejecting) Armeni