The Human Comedy

The inspiration for the major motion picture Ithaca, directed by and starring Meg Ryan–with a cast that includes Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater, Alex Neustaedter, Jack Quaid, and Tom Hanks

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.

Author: William Saroyan
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Publisher: Dell
Published: 08/15/1966
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.2lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780440339335
Language: English