{"product_id":"9780571383481","title":"The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze By William Saroyan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI hadn't had a haircut in forty days and forty nights, and I was beginning to look like several violinists out of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDepression-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JUST BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43939416572019,"sku":"9780571383481","price":175.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/71DJ-_fyGzL._SL1500.jpg?v=1758888251","url":"https:\/\/readerswarehouse.us\/products\/9780571383481","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}