Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories, The

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Upon its first publication in 1934, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze made a tremendous splash in the literary world, adding an author in love with his own madcap sincerity to a pantheon full of serious-minded modernists. Saroyan, who won (and then refused) the Pulitzer Prize, ardently loved humanity and always wrote on a passionately human scale. He was also one of the first American writers to focus attention on immigrant communities. From a Russian stamp collector to an Armenian writer, from a love-stricken Polish teenager to a film character on the verge of suicide, the protagonists in these twenty-seven stories are treated with what The San Francisco Chronicle called "the old Saroyan luminousness, which is to say... an insight as fresh as that of an unusually perceptive child."