J.D. Salinger : the escape artist

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"Three years after his death at ninety-one, J.D. Salinger remains our most mythic writer. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) became an American classic, and he was for a long time the writer for The New Yorker. Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters introduced, by way of the Glass family, a new type in contemporary literature: the introspective, voluble cast of characters whose stage is the Upper East Side of New York. But fame prov...

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Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010

Salinger, Jerome D., 1919-2010

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ISBN:

9780544261990
0544261992

Description:

181 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

1923: On running away
The gift
Lost
1930s: Ham and cheese
The Myron arms
Comanches
1932: McBurney and Central Park
The Salinger triptych
1934-1936: Salinger the sublime
The perversities of Princeton
Samizdat Salinger
1937: Vienna
"A girl I knew"
The bacon king
The eighth-grade canon
The muse of Manasquan
1938: "The young man went back to college"
The New Yorker
Roger Angell
The professional
Room 505
"The daring young man on the flying trapeze"
1133 Park Avenue
1941: "A young girl in 1941 with no waist at all"
Women in letters
The fan
The lady upstairs
Joyce Maynard
1945: The end of the War
1945: The Nazi bride
1961: The year of the woodchuck
1972: "Begin the Beguine"
The miscalculation
Gustave Lobrano and William Shawn
1960s-1980s: Letters to the Swami
The Catcher in the Rye: rereading and birthing

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2013045583

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1001284

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