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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.Holden Caulfied in The Catcher in the Rye)
J.Salinger was born and grew up in the fashionable apartment district of Manhattan, New York.In his childhood the young Jerome was called Sonny.The family had a beautiful apartment on Park Avenue.His friends from this period remember his sarcastic wit.In 1937 when he was eighteen and nineteen, Salinger spent five months in Europe.From 1937 to 1938 he studied at Ursinus College and New York University.He fell in love with Oona O'Neill, wrote her letters almost daily, and was later shocked when she married Charles Chaplin, who was much older than she.During World War II he was drafted into the infantry and was involved in the invasion of Normandy.Salinger's comrades considered him very brave, a genuine hero.They were later divorced and in 1955 Salinger married Claire Douglas, the daughter of the British art critic Robert Langton Douglas.The marriage ended in divorce in 1967, when Salinger's retreat into his private world and Zen Buddhism only increased.In 1948 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish' appeared, which introduced Seymour Glass, who commits suicide.The 'Glass cycle' continued in the collections FRANNY AND ZOOEY (1961), RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS (1963) and SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION (1963).Several of the stories are narrated by Buddy Glass.Seymour draws a portrait of him and his younger brother Buddy.Seymour, An Introduction)
Twenty stories published in Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and the New Yorker between 1941 and 1948 appeared in a pirated edition in 1974, THE COMPLETE UNCOLLECTED STORIES OF J.Many of them reflect Salinger's own service in the army.It sells still some 250 000 copies annually.The first reviews of the work were mixed, although most critics considered it brilliant.The story is written in a monologue and in lively slang.Christmas break to New York to find himself and lose his virginity.He spends an evening going to nightclubs, has an unsuccessful encounter with a prostitute, and the next day meets an old girlfriend.He meets his sister to tell her that he is leaving home and has a nervous breakdown.Holden describes everything as 'phoney' and is constantly in search of sincerity.Journalists have assumed, that because he doesn't give interviews, he has something to hide.Salinger in 1974 to a New York Times correspondent.However, according to Joyce Maynard, who was close to the author for a long time from the 1970s, Salinger still writes, but nobody is allowed to see the work.The new version, In Search of J.Since the late 80s Salinger has been married to Colleen O'Neill.Maynard's story of her relationship with Salinger, At Home in the World, appeared in October 1998.Salinger: A Critical and Personal Portrait, ed.Salinger by Warren French (1963, 1976); 'If You Really Want to Know': A Catcher Casebook, ed.For further information: News and Reviews from the Archives of The New York Times; Reviews of Dream Catcher by Margaret Salinger; J.Army and war and all so much and still like a phony like that.Ring Lardner and The Great Gatsby and all.Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented.The public attention that followed the success of the book led Salinger to move from New York to the remote hills of Cornish, N.Before that he had published only a few short stories; one of them, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," which appeared in The New Yorker in 1949, introduced readers to Seymour Glass, a character who subsequently figured in Franny and Zooey (1961) and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Salinger's only other published books.Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye by Eric Lomazoff
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