From Library Journal
First published in 1958, this reader provides a wide selection of Saroyan's work including whole short stories and selections from plays and novels.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Book Description
This is the most complete and generous sampling of the first half of an indeispensable American writer's career.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The William Saroyan Reader is the most complete and generous sampling of the first half of an indispensable American writer's career. Here is the vintage Saroyan of the 1930's and early 1940's, the period during which the short story writer ("The Darling Young Man on the Flying Trapeze"), playwright ("The Time of Your Life") and novelist (The Human Comedy) achieved a critical and popular success comparable to F. Scott Fitzgerald's during the 1920's. The selection has the added distinction of having been edited, introduced and annotated by William Saroyan himself, in effect comprising the writer's own mid-career overview of the best of his work.

FROM THE CRITICS

Library Journal