{"product_id":"9780571383481","title":"The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (Faber Editions) : Introduced by Stephen Fry","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: William Saroyan\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 7 November 2024 by FABER \u0026amp; FABER in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Faber Editions' series.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 130 x 19mm | 222g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Lost Great American Master: meet Jack Kerouac's inspiration in these heart-expanding tales of immigrant life in 1930s USA, introduced by superfan Stephen Fry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJACK KEROUAC: 'I loved him ... He just got me'ARTHUR MILLER: 'The first to let it all hang out and write like a child in wonderland.'KURT VONNEGUT: 'Still the greatest.'JOSEPH HELLER: 'My primary inspiration.'STEPHEN FRY: 'One of the most underrated writers of the century.'I 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\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\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Saroyan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56261327323461,"sku":"9780571383481","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780571383481.jpg?v=1763038376","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780571383481","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}