Човешка комедия Read Online By William Saroyan
| Title | : | Човешка комедия |
| Author | : | William Saroyan |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 232 pages |
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The place is Ithaca, in California s San Joaquin Valley The time is World War II The family is the Macauley s a mother, sister, and three brothers whose struggles and dreams reflect those of America s second generation immigrants In particular, fourteen year old Homer, determined to become one of the fastest telegraph messengers in the West, finds himself caught between The place is Ithaca, in California s San Joaquin Valley The time is World War II The family is the Macauley s a mother, sister, and three brothers whose struggles and dreams reflect those of America s second generation immigrants In particular, fourteen year old Homer, determined to become one of the fastest telegraph messengers in the West, finds himself caught between reality and illusion as delivering his messages of wartime death, love, and money brings him face to face with human emotion at its most naked and raw
This delightful novel shows us the boy becoming the man in a world that even in the midst of war, appears sweeter, safer and livable than our own.
about Author
William Saroyan was an American Armenian author The setting of many of his stories and plays was Fresno, California sometimes under a fictional name , the center of Armenian American life in California and where he grew up.Saroyan was born in Fresno, California to Armenian immigrants from Bitlis, Turkey At the age of three, after his father s death, Saroyan was placed in the orphanage in Oakl William Saroyan was an American Armenian author The setting of many of his stories and plays was Fresno, California sometimes under a fictional name , the center of Armenian American life in California and where he grew up.Saroyan was born in Fresno, California to Armenian immigrants from Bitlis, Turkey At the age of three, after his father s death, Saroyan was placed in the orphanage in Oakland, California, together with his brother and sister, an experience he later described in his writing Five years later, the family reunited in Fresno, where his mother, Takoohi, secured work at a cannery He continued his education on his own, supporting himself by taking odd jobs, such as working as an office manager for the San Francisco Telegraph Company.Saroyan decided to become a writer after his mother showed him some of his father s writings A few of his early short articles were published in Overland Monthly His first stories appeared in the 1930s Among these was The Broken Wheel , written under the name Sirak Goryan and published in the Armenian journal Hairenik in 1933 Many of Saroyan s stories were based on his childhood experiences among the Armenian American fruit growers of the San Joaquin Valley, or dealt with the rootlessness of the immigrant The short story collection My Name is Aram 1940 , an international bestseller, was about a young boy and the colorful characters of his immigrant family It has been translated into many languages.For info see 
Tracy's Tiger
My Name is Aram
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
The Time of Your Life
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The place is Ithaca, in California s San Joaquin Valley The time is World War II The family is the Macauley s a mother, sister, and three brothers who
232 pagesWilliam Saroyan
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