They are his supervisors at the telegraph office and he learns a lot about life, work, and values from them. Spangler, two of the warmest, kindest men ever to walk the face of the earth. This job brings him into contact with Mr. With the father of the family dead, Homer is forced to work long hours delivering telegrams to support his family. Saroyan takes us into the California town of Ithaca, where fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is being pulled into manhood too early by forces he cannot control. A relic from a more innocent time in American history, Saroyan's short, simple novel is a portrait of human beings at their very best, and a message of sincere, unabashed hope. Have you ever read a book that makes you want to go out into your community and better yourself, that makes you want to write a letter to an old friend, to call your family, to wander into the drug store on the corner and mingle in the conversation that is taking place there? Have you ever read a book that can make you buoyantly happy and tenderly sad, that can make you long for another time and place? Published in 1943, William Saroyan's "The Human Comedy" is such a book.
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