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THE LITTLE BOY named Ulysses Macauley one day stood over the new gopher hole in the backyard of his house on Santa Clara Avenue in Ithaca, California.
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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.
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- Title The Human Comedy
- Author William Saroyan
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition Rev ed. Illustra
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dell, New York, U.S.A.
- Date August 15, 1966
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780440339335 / 0440339332
- Weight 0.2 lbs (0.09 kg)
- Dimensions 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.6 in (17.27 x 10.41 x 1.52 cm)
- Reading level 760
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945, Family
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00002950
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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