Word: saroyans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ASSYRIAN AND OTHER STORIES (276 pp.) - William Saroyan - Harcourt, Brace...
That professional pixie, William Saroyan, is. back again, considerably older (41) than when he first announced himself a genius, somewhat heavier around his literary middle, but still wildly infatuated with the one subject that has always held his interest: himself. This time he opens a collection of eleven fair-to-Saroyan stories with a 26-page introduction which is so brash that it finally worries the reader into amusement...
...most unusual feature of Saroyan's sound-off is his announcement of how much money he has already made from selling The Assyrian's contents to magazines-$8,300. Of this sum he got $5,000 from Cosmopolitan for The Cocktail Party and $3,000 from the Saturday Evening Post for The Pheasant Hunter. Most of the other stories he could not sell at all, but three of them he let go free to a magazine apparently close to his Anatolian-American heart: The Armenian Review. Less unusual in an introduction, but still reminiscent of the old Saroyan...