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My Name Is Aram by William Saroyan
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My Name Is Aram (original 1940; edition 2013)

by William Saroyan (Author)

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Hailed by The New York Times as "marvelously captivating," William Saroyan's 1940 international bestseller recounts the exploits of an Armenian clan in northern California at the turn of the twentieth century. Based on the author's loving and eccentric extended family, the characters in these 14 related short stories enact humorous and touching scenes from immigrant life. Aram Garoghlanian narrates the tales, reflecting from an adult's perspective on his boyhood adventures. Beginning with "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse," in which 9-year-old Aram and his cousin redeem themselves from wrongdoing, the stories conclude with "A Word to Scoffers," which features an itinerant preacher's sage advice to Aram as the young man departs from the San Joaquin Valley for the first time.… (more)
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Title:My Name Is Aram
Authors:William Saroyan (Author)
Info:Dover Publications (2013), Edition: Illustrated, 160 pages
Collections:2022
Rating:**1/2
Tags:20th century, american literature, amenian, armenian americans, california, short stories

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My Name Is Aram by William Saroyan (1940)

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Cheering, charming, easy read short stories set in the author's Armenian community in Fresno, Ca.
The narrator, Aram Garoghlanian, is a sparky kid/ teen; out adventuring and bunking off school with his pals; meeting locals; getting bribed to sing in a choir...all set against the traditional and picaresque older generation of his community. ( )
  starbox | Mar 10, 2021 |
La mia copia (non esattamente quella che compare qui e nella mia libreria) presentava una traduzione non solo datata, ma pure scadente. Ho dovuto mollare, anche se qualcosa ero riuscito a intuire...
  downisthenewup | Aug 17, 2017 |
A wonderful collection of short stories published in various magazines by William Saroyan, more or less connected and related, most dealing with the Armenian experience in small-town California. Wonderfully eccentric, charming and true to life, these are widely regarded as Saroyan's best short stories. I tend to agree. ( )
  burnit99 | Feb 18, 2007 |
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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Saroyan, Williamprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Freeman, DonIllustratorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Diaz, DavidCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dinić, RadivojTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Folch i Camarasa, RamonTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Manoogian, SylvaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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One day back there in the good old days when I was nine and the world was full of every imaginable kind of magnificence, and life was still a delightful and mysterious dream, my cousin Mourad, who was considered crazy by everybody who knew him except me, came to my house at four in the morning and woke me up by tapping on the window of my room.
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Hailed by The New York Times as "marvelously captivating," William Saroyan's 1940 international bestseller recounts the exploits of an Armenian clan in northern California at the turn of the twentieth century. Based on the author's loving and eccentric extended family, the characters in these 14 related short stories enact humorous and touching scenes from immigrant life. Aram Garoghlanian narrates the tales, reflecting from an adult's perspective on his boyhood adventures. Beginning with "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse," in which 9-year-old Aram and his cousin redeem themselves from wrongdoing, the stories conclude with "A Word to Scoffers," which features an itinerant preacher's sage advice to Aram as the young man departs from the San Joaquin Valley for the first time.

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Contains: The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse --
The Journey to Hanford --
The Pomegranate Trees --
One of Our Future Poets, you Might Say --
The Fifty-Yard Dash --
A Nice Old-Fashioned Romance, with Love Lyrics and Everything --
My Cousin Dikran, the Orator --
The Presbyterian Choir Singers --
The Circus --
The Three Swimmers and the Grocer from Yale --
Locomotive 38, the Ojibway --
Old Country Advice to the American Traveler --
The Poor and Burning Arab --
A Word to Scoffers.
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