| Madness in the Family: Stories Contributor(s): Hamalian, Leo (Author), Saroyan, William (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0811211290 ISBN-13: 9780811211291 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 87028268 |
| Series: New Directions Paperbook |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.45 lbs) 141 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A collection of short stories that were originally published in the 1960s and 1970s in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's. |
Contributor Bio(s): Saroyan, William: - William Saroyan (1908-1981) was born in Fresno, California. Famous for a long and voluminous career, he wrote novels, along with some sixteen story collections, and plays including The Human Comedy (winning an Academy Award for his screenplay), and The Time of Your Life, for which he won the Drama Critics Circle and Pulitzer Prizes. He wrote about "the archetypal Armenian families who inhabit Saroyan country, in and around Fresno, California. [And yet with their] unpredictable charm and wacky spontaneity ... his characters overflow with so much human comedy that they transcend all ethnic boundaries, as in the stories of I.B. Singer" (The Chicago Tribune). |