William Saroyan

Chance Meetings

A Memoir

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In his touching and amusing memoir Chance Meetings, William Saroyan gives us a glimpse of the characters that have left an indelible impression on his mind for years to come. From the Armenian neighbourhood of his childhood to the Parisian streets of his formative years, we meet the people that have inspired, perplexed, angered and enamoured him. We meet finely drawn personalities like the Armenian Cabinet maker, that planed wood whilst his mind composed beautiful poems, who would call him into his shop and embarrass Saroyan with his recitations. We visit the tiny desk of the only famous writer in San Francisco, who kindly replied to Saroyan'… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4482-1481-5
EAN: 9781448214815
Produktnummer: 17319782
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 135 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'983 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

William Saroyan (1908-1981) was an internationally renowned Armenian American writer, playwright, and humanitarian. He achieved great popularity in the thirties, forties, and fifties through his hundreds of short stories, plays, novels, memoirs, and essays. In 1939, Saroyan was the first American writer to win both the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for his play The Time of Your Life. He famously refused to accept the Pulitzer Prize on the grounds that Commerce should not patronize art. He died near his hometown of Fresno at the age of seventy-two. The Time of Your Life was originally published in 1983 by Methuen.