📗 Libro en inglés THE DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE (FABER EDITIONS)

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 Armenian American writer William Saroyan Fusing Whitman s transcendence with the eccentric characterisation of Steinbeck and Salinger and foreshadowing the rhapsodies of the Beats his prose is a heart expanding experience that intoxicates to this day