Books by Aram Saroyan and Complete Book Reviews

Aram Saroyan, Author . Talisman $21.95 (209p) ISBN 978-1-58498-016-2
Saroyan, poet, novelist and biographer of his father, William Saroyan, presents a satisfying collection of meditations on an American literary life. His subjects range from the purely literary to the Armenian genocide of 1915, the Clinton legacy and
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Aram Saroyan, Author . Black Sparrow $30 (237p) ISBN 978-1-57423-171-7
As the son of writer William Saroyan and the stepson of Walter Matthau, Saroyan has plenty of family history to fall back on when it comes to exploring the mindset of an artist, something he does with humor and aplomb in his first short story...
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Aram Saroyan, Author . Godine/Black Sparrow $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-56792-396-4
Cobbled together from old reviews and essays, a 2000 lecture about writing, his post-9/11 journal, and some newer work, this short collection presents poet and biographer Saroyan's (Complete Minimal Poems ) reflections on writing, politics, and
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Aram Saroyan, Author Coffee House Press $11.95 (148p) ISBN 978-0-918273-97-0
This brief, affectionate memoir by the son of William Saroyan reads less like a narrative than a collection of essays. The author focuses on the 1960s, which for him was a decade of artistic and personal development rather than political passion....
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Aram Saroyan, Author Penguin Books $4.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-008884-7
Saroyan here limns the characters and relationships of three women who married world-famous artists much older than themselves. The four principal husbandsWilliam Saroyan, Walter Matthau, Leopold Stokowski and Charlie Chaplinare also sharply drawn....
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Aram Saroyan, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $16.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-07-054859-6
Too vague and uncommitted to work as a portrayal of a man's midlife crisis, this meandering novel from the author of Trio is rather a chronicle of midlife disaffection. Entering his 40s with a successful screenwriting career taking wing and a loving
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Aram Saroyan, Author Barricade Books $18.99 (366p) ISBN 978-0-942637-95-3
The 1981 killing of wealthy, wheelchair-bound businessman Robert Sand, who was in his late 60s, by his beautiful 40-year-old wife, is not especially involving, but the personality of Andrea is. A former call girl and actress, she had been married...
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Aram Saroyan. Three Rooms (PGW, dist.), $15.95 trade paperback (158p) ISBN 978-1-941110-33-1
Set in modern-day Los Angeles, this disappointing detective novel from Saroyan (The Romantic) has a decidedly unfinished feel to it. PI Michael Shepard gets hired by a model, Anita Holbrook, who believes someone may be trying to kill her. When Anita
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