The twin adventures
Subtitle: The adventures of William Saroyan, a diary. The adventures of Wesley Jackson, a novel.
Contributors: Saroyan, William, 1908-
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Description: Saroyan's second novel describes the picaresque adventures of Private Wesley Jackson (WWII) through 70 chapters of humor, insight, tragedy, and beauty as only Saroyan is able to portray. Saroyan narrowly avoided a court martial, because of the novel's pacifist outlook.
Notes: "An hour-to-hour chronicle of a writer at work on the writing of a novel, and the novel itself."