The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

SKU: 9780571383481
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

SKU: 9780571383481
Author: William Saroyan
Paperback·Ages 18+·Literary Fiction
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At a glance

🖤 Tone
Poignant, reflective, quietly hopeful
⚡ Pace
Gentle, contemplative
🌆 Vibes
Depression-era struggles, artistic ambition, loneliness, human resilience
✨ Themes
Poverty, hope, identity, survival, creativity, human connection
🧠 Emotional Journey
Melancholic, thoughtful, emotionally moving
📖 Hook
Through vivid and deeply human stories, ordinary people navigate hardship, loneliness, and fleeting moments of beauty during difficult times
💫 Perfect For
Readers who enjoy classic literary fiction focused on emotional realism and human resilience

About The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze By William Saroyan

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.

Book details

Format
Paperback
Reading age
18+
Pages
256
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Published
4 February 2025
Language
English
ISBN
9780571383481

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