William Saroyan Author:Aram Saroyan William Saroyan dazzled America with stories, plays, and novels that continue to charm and touch us today. The Time of Your LIfe, The Human Comedy - they're part of us now. We want to be the warm and zany folks Saroyan told us we are - and that he was: exuberant, witty, brash, wise, and just a touch sentimental. Saroyan cultivated t... more »hat image - and all America loved him for it.
But there was another William Saroyan, one who spent his early years in an orphanage and his youth as an emotional outsider. And later, there was the compulsive gambler, the tyrannical husband, the distant, unpredictable father. Aram Saroyan's account of his father's life is an intimate biography that mines the emotional substrata of the man with whom he shared so much. It is, says Mark Harris, "a hard, brave, illuminating work. William Saroyan was unable to open himself to truths about himself. He did not dare to confront his own life; he could not let go. Life became very painful for him, and Aram Saroyan tells us about the pain by telling us some amazing facts. This gives us the man we never saw."« less