Buy The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (Faber Editions) and we will send it along with a free gift,…

Summary Buy The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (Faber Editions) and we will send it along with a free gift, William Saroyan’s Rules for Writers pamphlet. Offer exclusive to faber.co.uk. About the pamphlet ‘The most solid advice, though, for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.’ Extracted from the author’s own preface to the first edition in 1934, and full of his characteristic charm and humour, we present this exclusive ‘William Saroyan’s Rules for Writers’ pamphlet. From the innate oddness of stories, story-writing and storytelling to handy tips – ‘do not pay attention to the rules other people make’, ‘write the kind of stories you feel like writing’, ‘throw in an “utterly” whenever possible’ and ‘put words on paper, one at a time’ – Saroyan’s advice is funny, timeless and honest. A6 size and printed in the UK on unbleached paper stock made from 100% genuine de-inked post consumer waste, certified by FSC®. About The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze I hadn’t had a haircut in forty days and forty nights, and I was beginning to look like several violinists out of work. Depression-era San Francisco, home to the lost souls of many races: immigrants, struggling writers and heartsick adolescents, collecting in automats, nightschools, movies and barbershops, working in vineyards, telegram exchanges and as salesmen – and always revelling in being alive. A bestseller on publication in 1934, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze was the debut collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning (and rejecting) Armenian-American writer William Saroyan. Fusing Whitman’s transcendence with the eccentric characterisation of Steinbeck and Salinger, and foreshadowing the rhapsodies of the Beats, his prose is a heart-expanding experience that intoxicates to this day. This edition is introduced by superfan Stephen Fry.