Chance Meetings A Memoir William Saroyan by William Saroyan 9781448214815, 1448214815 instant download after payment.

In his touching & amusing memoir Chance Meetings, William Saroyan gives us a glimpse of the characters that have left an indelible impression on his mind for years to come. From the Armenian neighbourhood of his childhood to the Parisian streets of his formative years, we meet the people that have inspired, perplexed, angered & enamoured him.

We meet finely drawn personalities like the Armenian Cabinet maker, that planed wood whilst his mind composed beautiful poems, who would call him into his shop & embarrass Saroyan with his recitations. 

We visit the tiny desk of the only famous writer in San Francisco, who kindly replied to Saroyan's letter & invited him into his office. And the playful image of his mother, who would caricature everyone from the postman to the president with hilarious precision.

First published in 1978, Chance Meetings builds a picture of the author through the people that surrounded him throughout his life, who shaped & formed a great writer, & were immortalised by his words.

William Saroyan (1908-1981) was an internationally renowned Armenian American writer, playwright, & humanitarian. He achieved great popularity in the thirties, forties, & fifties through his hundreds of short stories, plays, novels, memoirs, & essays. 

In 1939, Saroyan was the first American writer to win both the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award & the Pulitzer Prize for his play The Time of Your Life. He famously refused to accept the Pulitzer Prize on the grounds that "Commerce should not patronize art." He died near his hometown of Fresno at the age of seventy-two. The Time of Your Life was originally published in 1983 by Methuen.