Decent Birth, Happy Funeral

Decent Birth, Happy Funeral

Decent Birth, Happy Funeral

Decent Birth, Happy Funeral

Overview

Two enlisted men cross paths then continue on to their respective destinies. Ernest goes to war and meets death so that others may live. August takes a wife and is blessed with a child, born on the day of Ernest's death and, keeping his promise to the dead man, conducts a celebratory funeral.

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Authors

William Saroyan

Novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, and essayist, William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California in 1908. A high-school dropout, Saroyan was largely self-educated and decided at an early age to pursue a career as a writer, drawing on his experience as an Armenian-America ...
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