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Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Slawenski, Kenneth.
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
MARC Display
J
.
D
.
Salinger
: a
life
/ Kenneth Slawenski.
by
Slawenski, Kenneth.
Random House, c2010.
Call #:
921 S165sL
Subjects
Salinger
,
J
.
D
. (Jerome David), 1919-2010.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781400069514 (alk. paper)
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
x, 450 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published in the United Kingdom as '
J
.D.
Salinger
: a
life
raised high', by Pomona Books, West Yorkshire, England, in 2010"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-434) and index.
Contents:
Sonny -- Ambition -- Indecision -- Displacement -- Hell -- Purgatory -- Recognition -- Reaffirmation -- Holden -- Crossroads -- Positioning -- Franny -- Two families -- Zooey -- Seymour -- Dark summit -- Detachment -- Farewell -- The poetry of silence -- Coming through the rye.
Summary:
One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history,
J
.D.
Salinger
eluded fans and journalists for most of his
life
. Now comes a new biography. Filled with new information and revelations, garnered from countless interviews, letters, and public records, this work presents his extraordinary
life
that spanned nearly the entire twentieth century. The author explores
Salinger
's privileged youth, long obscured by misrepresentation and rumor, revealing the brilliant, sarcastic, vulnerable son of a disapproving father and doting mother and his entrance into a social world where Gloria Vanderbilt dismissively referred to him as a Jewish boy from New York. Here too are accounts of
Salinger
's first broken heart (Eugene O'Neill's daughter, Oona, left him for the much older Charlie Chaplin) and the devastating World War II service of which he never spoke and which haunted him forever. This work features all the dazzle of his early writing successes, his dramatic encounters with luminaries from Ernest Hemingway to Laurence Olivier to Elia Kazan, his surprising office intrigues with famous New Yorker editors and writers, and the stunning triumph of The Catcher in the Rye, which would both make him world famous and hasten his retreat into the hills of New Hampshire. Whether it is revealing the facts of his hasty, short lived first marriage or his lifelong commitment to Eastern religion, which would dictate his attitudes toward sex, nutrition, solitude, and creativity, this biography is
Salinger
's unforgettable story in full.
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