William Saroyan The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (Faber Editions) :

A Lost Great American Master meet Jack Kerouacs inspiration in these heartexpanding tales of immigrant life in 1930s USA, introduced by superfan Stephen Fry. JACK KEROUAC I loved him ... He just got meARTHUR 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 hadnt had a haircut in forty days and forty nights, and I was beginning to look like several violinists out of work. Depressionera 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 Prizewinning (and rejecting) ArmenianAmerican writer William Saroyan. Fusing Whitmans transcendence with the eccentric characterisation of Steinbeck and Salinger, and foreshadowing the rhapsodies of the Beats, his prose is a heartexpanding experience that intoxicates to this day. | William Saroyan The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (Faber Editions) :