The Human Comedy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780440339335)

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
ISBN-10: 0440339332
ISBN-13: 9780440339335
Publisher: Dell
Language: English
Published: 08/15/1966
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.10w x 0.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.8
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 16714 / Human Comedy