Saroyan, The New Saroyan Reader, Edited by Brian Darwent (hardcover)

William Saroyan was one of the young giants of American writing during the Depression years, a modern master of the short story whose career extended into the 1980s. His stories and plays made him a legend in his own lifetime.

The New Saroyan Reader brings together for the first time choice items from the exuberant early years of his heyday, when he was the most talked about writer in the world, along with the mellow pieces from the years of his mature work. In this collection a unique literary personality emerges: a writer who, notwithstanding his tremendous early success, remained through the good times and bad a writer pure and simple, despising commercial inducements and remaining remarkably faithful to his highly individual brand of personal and literary integrity.