Books from 1970 and Beyond
Title:
Date:
March 1972
Art Credits:
First edition jacket design by Virginia Smith
Jacket photo by Arthur Tcholakian
UK Edition jacket design by Michael Jarvis
Notes:
UK edition published by Davis-Poynter Ltd. in 1972
Title:
Sons Come and Go. Mothers Hang in Forever
Date:
1976
Art Credits:
Book design by Ingrid Beckman
Jacket design by Judith K. Leeds
Front jacket photo by Ed Hagopian
Back jacket photo by Willard Van Dyke
Notes:
An exclusive limited edition was also published in 1976 by the First Edition Society
Translated into German
Title:
Obituaries
Date:
1979
Art Credits:
Text, cover design, and production by George Mattingly
Cover photography by Richard Blair
Notes:
The last Saroyan book pulished during his lifetime.
Published by Creative Arts Book Company. Publisher Donald S. Ellis.
Title:
Madness in the Family
Date:
1988
Art Credits:
Cover drawing, Bicycle Act by Ben Shahn
Back cover photo by Layle Silbert
Design by Ellen C. Dawson.
Notes:
Published post-humously.
Edited by Leo Hamalian
Includes
- Madness in the Family
- Fire
- What a World, Said the Bicycle Rider
- Gaston
- The Inscribed Copy of the Kreutzer Sonata
- Picnic Time
- A Fresno Fable
- Lord Chugger of Cheer
- Najari Levon's Old Country Advice to the Young Americans on How to Live with a Snake
- Mystic Games
- Twenty is the Greatest Time in Any Man's Life
- How the Barber Finally Got Himself into a Fable
- There was a Young Lady of Perth
- How to Choose a Wife
- The Last Word Was Love
- The Deul
- A Letter from William Saroyan to James Laughlin
