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J. D. Salinger: A Life (repost)

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J. D. Salinger: A Life (repost)

J. D. Salinger: A Life By Kenneth Slawenski
Publisher: Ran..dom Ho.use 2011 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 1400069513 | EPUB | 4 MB

Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2011: In the year since his death, we've heard much more about J.D. Salinger's reclusiveness and eccentricities, both real and exaggerated, than we have about the writing that made him famous in the first place. Kenneth Slawenski's Salinger: A Life avoids such scandalmongering in order to deliver a sensitive (but not fawning) portrait of Salinger the writer. Slawenski looks not only at Salinger's most famous works, but also finds a wealth of psychological insights in places like rejection letters and biographical statements. Not surprisingly, Salinger's life, and especially his service in World War II, provided much of the raw material for his stories.