What Was The One Day In The Afternoon Of The World By Lucy Saroyan

Lucy Saroyan, his daughter was born on January 17, 1946. Saroyan was having financial problems after the return as a result of his gambling. By August 1946 he managed to lose 100 000 dollars. He later saw big losses as blessing as they drove him to the typewriter. The Wesley Jackson novel was published and received a bad critic reviews. Ignoring this Saroyan believed it to be his best and maybe even the American best novel and wrote a journal about his writing of the book. The money made from the book did not cover his debt to his publisher and being unable to start writing again he turned to gambling yet again. He put his hope in The Time of Your Life film version but to his disappointment it was a financial failure. Moreover, his wife miscarried
The critics did not like the books and the reviews were awful. Next year he revisited his novel One Day In The Afternoon of the World and it was published in May 1964. The reviews were not too positive. As he was unable to write a great novel he was striving for, he returned to writing short stories and wrote with the same vigor as he did in his youth writing one story in two hours. He managed to sell and publish some of them and repaid his taxes fully after twenty years of debt. The right to reprint The Human Comedy and My Name is Aram were sold for 100 000 dollars and Saroyan hoped it will raise the demand for his newer books. His hopes came true. This time instead of gambling away the money he decided to invest all his money and bought shares in several
His daughter Lucy was now an actress and his son Aram was writing poems and manged to publish a book. However, Saroyan urged him to find a different work to provide for his family as he was still supporting him in his 25 years. Letters from 74 rue Taitbout a gallery of portrait from Saroyan’s life was published in 1969 to critics indifference. "We can see where Saroyan lives," said the New York Times, " in the big-eyed Armenian child he was then, back in California fifty years ago." 2 After visiting Armenia where he was welcomed as a great writer he wrote a play named The Armenians about the humiliation and pride known to contemporary Armenians. The play was produced in 1971 to a favorable reception. However, Saroyan himself said that the production was "stupid and all wrong, good God"3. In the same year, he rediscovered Places Where I've Done Time which he wrote in 1969 about sixty-eight places that were critical to his life. It was published in 1972 with major promotion. The reception of the book was positive and much better than the reception of his other recent books. He was now financially stable after two decades of constant worry about his monetary situation. On the other hand, he had problems with his prostate and needed to go to the toilet every