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Indeholder kapitlerne "1. Ulysses", "2. Homer", "3. Telegrafkontoret", "4. Hele verden vil misunde mig", "5. Gå du din vej, så går jeg min", "6. En sang for Mr. Grogan", "7. Hvis der kommer et budskab", "8. Vær hos os ved vort bord, oh Herre", "9. Kaniner rundt omkring her, hvor de så end er",
USA, Californien, Ithaca, 1940'erne
En familie, hvor tre brødre, Ulysses, Homer og Marcus Macauley, er vokset op sammen. De bor ved deres mor, der er enke og anden verdenskrig har gjort at Marcus er indkaldt til krigstjeneste. ???
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"10. Oldtidskundskab", "11. En tale om den menneskelige næse", "12. 220 meter forhindringsløbet", "13. Fælden, for Guds skyld, fælden", "14. Diana", "15. Pigen på hjørnet", "16. Jeg skal bringe din hjem igen", "17. Tre soldater", "18. Mr. Grogan om krigen", "19. Til moder, med hilsen", "20. Det er værst for jer, ikke for mig", "21. En bedre verden, et bedre folk", "22. Lad lyset skinne", "23. Død, tag ikke til Ithaca", "24. Abrikostræet", "25. Vær lykkelig! Vær lykkelig!", "26. Der vil altid være smerte i tingene", "27. Alle de vidunderlige fejltagelser", "28. På folkebiblioteket", "29. I den kvindelige foredragsforening", "30. Bethel", "31. Mr. Mechano", "32. Støttet til det evigt blanke sværd", "33. Et brev fra Marcus til hans bror Homer", "34. Her er et kys", "35. Løvens latter", "36. Træerne og vinen", "37. Ithaca, mit Ithaca!", "38. Kærlighed er udødelig, had dør hvert øjeblik", "39. Enden og begyndelsen".USA, Californien, Ithaca, 1940'erne
En familie, hvor tre brødre, Ulysses, Homer og Marcus Macauley, er vokset op sammen. De bor ved deres mor, der er enke og anden verdenskrig har gjort at Marcus er indkaldt til krigstjeneste. ???
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Kbh. (tr. Aalborg) : Hans Reitzel, (1960).
Description
Widow and three orphan children in small California town make a go of life.
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LibraryThing member jeffome
St. Barts 2017 #1 - Wonderful little gem - somewhat unexpected since my 1st round with Saroyan did not go quite so well. This is a very charming look at life in a WWII California family with one son off to war and the second son, Homer, steps up to do his best to work and support his widowed mother
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and 2 other siblings until the older brother returns. His work opportunity as a telegraph messenger thrusts him into adulthood whether he is ready or not. He is forced to confront the good, bad and the ugly and thus comes of age at 14. Put together in small compact chapters (with wonderful pen & ink drawings at each chapter beginning in this particular volume), we are drawn into the lives of this very typical family in a very typical American town. At times seeming a bit random, it all ties together very sensibly at the end. I will miss my time with the Macauleys.....Godspeed Homer..... Show Less
LibraryThing member panamacoffee
Dated but fine tale of a young boy named Ulysses and his older brother Homer growing up in Ithaca, California, while their older brother is in the war. Homer is a messenger for Western Union and has to deliver death notices to the families of soldiers who have been killed. He loves being a
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messenger and prides himself on being fast and good, but he dreads those telegrams and mulls over what might happen if his own brother died. Show Less
LibraryThing member Prop2gether
I LOVE this book, the story, the characters--just about perfect. The film version featuring Mickey Rooney as Ulysses is almost as good.
LibraryThing member golfjr
Simple of style, sweet of feeling...so much left unsaid
LibraryThing member callmejacx
How can someone write a book about life, every day life and every day events and make it a page turner. Just as life does it makes you smile, sad, cry, memories, and turns of events that one may not see coming. This is on my favorite book list. I am not one for keeping many books but this one is
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LibraryThing member kerns222
Sentimental cutsie claptrap. Perfectly fit for the Saturday Evening Post of the 40s and 50s. The foil for the realistic writers of the depression/WW2 era. But you ought to see what they were reacting to. At least for a few pages
LibraryThing member Cecrow
The title implies medieval farce, but what you get is a coming-of-age story set in 1940s California - a really good one. I'm as ready as the next person to chew apart and nitpick any novel to death, but then once in a while I get to be like the food critic at the end of the Pixar movie
I've read the negative criticisms. If this novel is "too sentimental," then I guess I've become a sentimental fool or else that's what it takes to beat down my jaded walls. If it's "too moralizing," I guess I'm foolish to wish I could say half these things so clearly to my own sons, who are still too young for this book. We don't live in such different circumstances than the 1940s that these simple truths about the realities of life (and death) aren't still applicable to anyone, anywhere. They can be so very hard to convey, absorb and understand for any of us at any age, but Saroyan took a pretty fair shake at trying to help us do it this one time and I think we can afford to be a little grateful.
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'Ratatouille' and acknowledge that - every rule of good writing thrown aside - something's reached me.I've read the negative criticisms. If this novel is "too sentimental," then I guess I've become a sentimental fool or else that's what it takes to beat down my jaded walls. If it's "too moralizing," I guess I'm foolish to wish I could say half these things so clearly to my own sons, who are still too young for this book. We don't live in such different circumstances than the 1940s that these simple truths about the realities of life (and death) aren't still applicable to anyone, anywhere. They can be so very hard to convey, absorb and understand for any of us at any age, but Saroyan took a pretty fair shake at trying to help us do it this one time and I think we can afford to be a little grateful.
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LibraryThing member HarryMacDonald
Every so often there is truth in that sadly over-worked phrase, "a miodern classic", and never was it more true or better deserved than here. It is humbling to read the title of the penultimate chapter, written during what must have seemed then to be an endless World War: "Love is immortal, hate
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LibraryThing member DeusXMachina
For nearly 30 years now, this is the one book I'm coming back to over and over again. It's a small story about small people, their suffering, stubbornness and strength, full of humanity and hope. Beautiful.
LibraryThing member Ben.Cumberledge
I found nothing particularly human or comedic about Saroyan's most famous novel. After suffering through 30 pages or so, the thought occurred that here is a poor facsimile of Twain: unfortunately, the ink cartridge emptied its contents before the transmission was complete.
LibraryThing member thorold
This was Saroyan's own novelisation of a screenplay he'd written for MGM, which perhaps accounts for its almost unbearably decent, optimistic, American-Dream-celebrating tone.
It's 1943, and the small town of Ithaca in California's San Joaquin Valley is a place where the locals are happy to lecture
There are a lot of lovely little scenes in this book — the raid on the unripe apricot tree, the scene where Homer's little brother Ulysses (!!) gets caught in a patent trap and no-one knows how to release him, and best of all Homer's impromptu lecture on noses in Ancient History. But it's not really enough to defeat the unrelenting niceness and the dead hand of narrative inevitability: we know from the start that there's only one way a story about a telegram boy whose brother is away in the war can end.
It's 1943, and the small town of Ithaca in California's San Joaquin Valley is a place where the locals are happy to lecture
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you on profound truths of human nature at a moment's notice at any time of day or night, whilst ev'ry prospect pleases and only sports teachers are vile. The young men are away fighting a distant and seemingly endless war (it's not called Ithaca by accident, evidently), and child-labour is a lesser evil than the unspeakable thought that women and girls might be forced to go out to work, so fourteen-year-old Homer (!) is working nights delivering telegrams whilst his even younger friend August sells newspapers on street corners. Long live the free market!There are a lot of lovely little scenes in this book — the raid on the unripe apricot tree, the scene where Homer's little brother Ulysses (!!) gets caught in a patent trap and no-one knows how to release him, and best of all Homer's impromptu lecture on noses in Ancient History. But it's not really enough to defeat the unrelenting niceness and the dead hand of narrative inevitability: we know from the start that there's only one way a story about a telegram boy whose brother is away in the war can end.
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LibraryThing member janerawoof
Beautiful. Heartwarming without being saccharine. A true classic.
Awards
501 Must-Read Books (Emma Beare, 2006) (Children's Fiction)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1943 (novel)
1943 (play)
Physical description
219 p.; 19.5 cm
Local notes
Omslag: Preben Zahle
Omslaget viser en stor dreng der hilser ud mod en person i et tog
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra amerikansk "The Human Comedy" af Kai Hoffmann
Reitsel-serie, bind 45
Omslaget viser en stor dreng der hilser ud mod en person i et tog
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra amerikansk "The Human Comedy" af Kai Hoffmann
Reitsel-serie, bind 45
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Pages
219
DDC/MDS
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