William Saroyan is an outstanding classic of American and world literature, combining the traditions of Chekhov and Hemingway in his work, full of humor, love of life and worldly wisdom. Behind the various human shortcomings of his heroes, he always sees a bright, good beginning; gentle humor coexists with bitter irony, and outward discreetness with the sense of words of a born storyteller. The novel “Boys for Girls, Girls for Boys” has an autobiographical basis: in its characters one can easily discern both Saroyan himself, who is trying to overcome writer’s block, and his wife, actress Carol Marcus, raising their two children and yearning for New York society in San Francisco, and Gloria Vanderbilt, and even Charlie Chaplin... For the first time in Russian!