The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, The,
first book by William Saroyan, issued in 1934. It collects 26 stories, all brief, and some only a page long, in the author's own idiosyncratic vein, written with great speed during a time when he claimed to have written a story a day for 30 days. The title work presents a poor, jobless, aspiring young author in San Francisco as he makes his way through a day conceiving, among many other things, of a “flight with grace…to some sort of eternity.”