The Human Comedy by William Saroyan (1976, Paperback)
A Laurel Edition 3933
Publisher: DELL
Illustrated by Don Freeman
Members of the Macauley family find their peaceful existence in rural California greatly changed in the early months of 1942. The place is Ithaca, in California's San Joaquin Valley. The time is World War II. The family is the Macauley's—a mother, sister, and three brothers whose struggles and dreams reflect those of America's second-generation immigrants…In particular, fourteen-year-old Homer, determined to become one of the fastest telegraph messengers in the West, finds himself caught between reality and illusion as delivering his messages of wartime death, love, and money brings him face-to-face with human emotion at its most naked and raw.
Gentle, poignant and richly autobiographical, this delightful novel shows us the boy becoming the man in a world that even in the midst of war, appears sweeter, safer and more livable than out own. 192 pages
CONDITION: Good to fair. Pages yellowed from age. Library stamp on 1st page.
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