The Man with the Heart in the Highlands & Other Early Stories

Gathered in The Man with the Heart in the Highlands are sixteen stories from William Saroyans most celebrated literary period, culled from several long out-of-print collections from the 1930s and 40s, While achieving meteoric success with The Human Comedy and The Time of Your Life, the young Saroyan set the pace with characters as fresh and compassionate as himself. His voice here is exhilarating, luminous, and completely distinctiveready to let go with a lusty brash laugh on every page. These stories amply bear out Elizabeth Bowens opinion that probably since O. Henry nobody has done more to endear and stabilize the short story.