Eleven of William Saroyan's most delightful tales,
Fresno Stories
springs straight from the source of the author's vision—"the archetypal Armenian families who inhabit Saroyan country, in and around Fresno, California." (
Chicago Tribune
)
Selected from New Directions' collections of Saroyan's early stories (
The Man With the Heart In the Highlands
) and his later work (
Madness In the Family
),
spans his whole remarkable career.