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008			101708r19891943caua 000 1 eng
010			_a89032785
020			_a9780151423019
050	0	0	_aPS3537.A826 _bH7 1989
082	0	0	_aFIC SAR
100	1		_aSaroyan, William _d(, 1908-1981)
245	1	4	_aThe human comedy _c/ William Saroyan ; illustrated by Don Freeman
260			_aSan Diego _b: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich _c, [1989], c1943.
300			_axi, 242 p. _b: ill. _c; 21 cm.
440		3	_aAn HBJ modern classic
520			_aThe 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.
650		4	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _v--Fiction
650		0	_aFamilies _v--Fiction
655		7	_aWar stories
942			_cMO
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