SOURCE: "It Reads Like Fiction," in The New Republic, Vol. XLIX, No. 1277, May 24, 1939, pp. 78-9.
In the following excerpt from a review of Peace, It's Wonderful, Ferguson comments on the fragmentary quality of the stories and on the progress Saroyan has made as a writer since publishing his earliest fiction.
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