Author: William Saroyan
Publisher: Books for Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Author: William Saroyan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486490904
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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"Marvelously captivating." — The New York Times. First published in 1940, Saroyan's international bestseller recounts the exploits of an Armenian clan in northern California at the turn of the 20th century. Based on the author's loving and eccentric extended family, the characters in these 14 related short stories provide humorous and touching scenes from immigrant life.

Author: William Saroyan
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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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)

Author: Margaret Bedrosian
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814323397
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Margaret Bedrosian's pioneering interdisciplinary study examines the continuing effect of Armenian history on Armenian-American writing. Using the work of ten Armenian-American poets and fiction and non-fiction writers, she shows the continuing impact on Armenian Americans of cultural symbols, myths, and attitudes carried over from the Old World, and explores the ways in which two cultures meet, conflict, and become integrated in the imagination. Through analysis of writers' actual or fictionalized experience, The Magical Pine Ring provides an understanding of the Armenians' specific concerns as Armenians and as immigrants, the effect of their self-awareness as Armenians on their adaptation to America, the typical and stereotypical situations and personalities that emerged with time, and the key values and beliefs that endured even as names were changed and assimilation blurred physical and social demeanor. Bedrosian also explores the directions Armenian-American writers have taken in portraying group history and the nature of their self-discovery as Armenian Americans. For the most part, this literature is not a direct outgrowth of the mainstream of Armenian literature. The relationship of the writer discussed here is one of spirit, of ancestral sympathies, burdens, and responsibilities. These writers register the pain of exile and alienation as they weave images of yearning and loss, celebration and futuristic vision into their writing. Through their crossroads identity in America, these writers add to our understanding of the Armenian diaspora.

Author: Arthur Miller
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486805131
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Soft and warm, Jane's blanket had always been there to comfort her, and she couldn't imagine drifting off to sleep without it. But with the passage of time, Jane grew bigger and bigger and her beloved pink blanket got smaller and smaller. This tender tale of how Jane learned to do without her blanket is a story that children and adults will be happy to share. In his only work for children, the author of Death of a Salesman offers a different kind of story. Arthur Miller's heartwarming tale of a child's growth and maturity is accompanied by charming images by Al Parker, a prominent illustrator and founder of the Famous Artists School.

Author: Galt MacDermot
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573681677
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Author: Strawberry Saroyan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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From the glittering skyscrapers of Manhattan’s media elite to the slacker haven of a fashionably low-rent L.A. bar, Strawberry Saroyan traces her journey from girl- to womanhood, as well as from fantasy to reality. A powerful and profoundly postmodern coming-of-age story, with a voice reminiscent of Liz Phair’s one moment and Mary McCarthy’s the next, Girl Walks into a Bar explores Saroyan’s struggle not only with who she is and who she wants to be but also with who she is in the context of what she’s supposed to embody: the iconic, media-promulgated “girl,” a twenty-first-century version of Audrey Hepburn standing outside Tiffany’s looking at diamonds. Girl Walks into a Bar takes a handful of the most striking and formative episodes of Saroyan’s life and brings them to the page as a filmmaker might, zooming in on the crucial “scenes”: Saroyan losing her virginity, starting her own riot-grrrly magazine, falling in dysfunctional love. Yet all the while she’s trailed by that other black-clad girl, the Platonic ideal of so many modern young women’s fantasies. Will the two ever meet? That question lies at the heart of Saroyan’s genre-bending memoir. Girl Walks into a Bar promises to be one of the most memorable debuts of the year.

Author: William Saroyan
Publisher: New York : Praeger
ISBN:
Category : American fiction (Fictional works by one author).
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Sixty-eight stories from boyhood in Fresno to 'his years as a famous writer and world traveler.

Author: William Saroyan
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Aram Saroyan
Publisher: William Morrow
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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The saga of Lew Welch and the best generation.