Description
Set in Ithaca in California’s San Joaquin Valley during World War II, this gentle, poignant and richly autobiographical novel follows the Macauley family—a mother, daughter and three sons—whose struggles and dreams reflect those of America’s second-generation immigrants. Fourteen-year-old Homer, determined to become one of the fastest telegraph messengers in the West, finds himself caught between reality and illusion as messages of wartime death, love and money bring him face-to-face with human emotion at its most raw. The novel shows a boy becoming a man in a world that, even amid war, seems sweeter, safer and more livable than our own. It is also the basis of the motion picture Ithaca, directed by and starring Meg Ryan, with Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater, Alex Neustaedter, Jack Quaid and Tom Hanks.
Information
Author: Saroyan William
Language: English
Publication date: May 4, 2007
Manufacturer: Folio, spol.s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 192
ISBN/EAN: 9780440339335