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Franny and Zooey (A BookCaps Study Guide)
 List Price: $2.99 DescriptionThe perfect companion to J.D. Salinger's "Franny and Zooey," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major characters and themes.BookCap Study Guides do not contain text from the actual book, and are not meant to be purchased as alternatives to reading the book. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month. Visit BookCaps.com to find out more. The perfect companion to J.D. Salinger's "Franny and Zooey," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major characters and themes. BookCap Study Guides do not contain text from the actual book, and are not meant to be purchased as alternatives to reading the book. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month. Visit BookCaps.com to find out more.
J. D. Salinger: A Life
 List Price: Price: $10.38 You Save: $6.62 (39%) DescriptionNATIONAL BESTSELLER 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. But Slawenski does much more than compare Salinger's biography to his literary output: he also shows how compromises, conflicts, and editorial intrigues shaped Salinger's works, even when he was at the peak of his career. The book has much less to say about Salinger's post-1960 retirement and self-seclusion, apart from the author's occasional foray into the public eye by way of a rare interview or court case. But Slawenski does this for good reason: Salinger: A Life seeks only to explain Salinger as most of us knew him, through his writing. As a result, both die-hard fans and those who last picked up Catcher in the Rye in high school will find it enlightening. --Darryl Campbell A Look Inside J.D. Salinger: A Life
Nine Stories
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DescriptionThe Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme -- With Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, and Teddy.In the J.D. Salinger benchmark "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymour Glass floats his beach mate Sybil on a raft and tells her about these creatures' tragic flaw. Though they seem normal, if one swims into a hole filled with bananas, it will overeat until it's too fat to escape. Meanwhile, Seymour's wife, Muriel, is back at their Florida hotel, assuring her mother not to worry--Seymour hasn't lost control. Mention of a book he sent her from Germany and several references to his psychiatrist lead the reader to believe that World War II has undone him. The war hangs over these wry stories of loss and occasionally unsuppressed rage. Salinger's children are fragile, odd, hypersmart, whereas his grownups (even the materially content) seem beaten down by circumstances--some neurasthenic, others (often female) deeply unsympathetic. The greatest piece in this disturbing book may be "The Laughing Man," which starts out as a man's recollection of the pleasures of storytelling and ends with the intersection between adult need and childish innocence. The narrator remembers how, at nine, he and his fellow Comanches would be picked up each afternoon by the Chief--a Staten Island law student paid to keep them busy. At the end of each day, the Chief winds them down with the saga of a hideously deformed, gentle, world-class criminal. With his stalwart companions, which include "a glib timber wolf" and "a lovable dwarf," the Laughing Man regularly crosses the Paris-China border in order to avoid capture by "the internationally famous detective" Marcel Dufarge and his daughter, "an exquisite girl, though something of a transvestite." The masked hero's luck comes to an end on the same day that things go awry between the Chief and his girlfriend, hardly a coincidence. "A few minutes later, when I stepped out of the Chief's bus, the first thing I chanced to see was a piece of red tissue paper flapping in the wind against the base of a lamppost. It looked like someone's poppy-petal mask. I arrived home with my teeth chattering uncontrollably and was told to go straight to bed."
Franny and Zooey
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DescriptionThe author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.
J.D. The Plot to Steal J.D. Salinger's Manuscripts
 List Price: $2.99 DescriptionHe's a professor with a mission: "I, Leonard Wellington Worthy the third, spent twenty-five years designing an assault on a fortress, an expropriation of certain documents, and a perfect escape." Find out what happens when the fortress is J.D. Salinger's bunker, the documents are his unpublished manuscripts, and a messy murder thwarts a perfect plan.Political intrigue? Sure, there's plenty of that, too. J.D. is a funny, sexy romp for the literary set (relax: no authors were harmed in this book). Adult language and situations. Text to Speech feature is ENABLED. Listen to your heart's content, Kindle owners. To find more titles by the same author(s), search the Kindle Store for Sierra Philpin, Patricia Sierra, and John Philpin. Author contact: kindlewriter@gmail.com He's a professor with a mission: "I, Leonard Wellington Worthy the third, spent twenty-five years designing an assault on a fortress, an expropriation of certain documents, and a perfect escape." Find out what happens when the fortress is J.D. Salinger's bunker, the documents are his unpublished manuscripts, and a messy murder thwarts a perfect plan. Political intrigue? Sure, there's plenty of that, too. J.D. is a funny, sexy romp for the literary set (relax: no authors were harmed in this book). Adult language and situations. Text to Speech feature is ENABLED. Listen to your heart's content, Kindle owners. To find more titles by the same author(s), search the Kindle Store for Sierra Philpin, Patricia Sierra, and John Philpin. Author contact: kindlewriter@gmail.com Salinger JD News
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mediabistro.comJD Salinger's Lawyer Examines Unauthorized SequelJD Salinger's lawyer is looking into the unauthorized sequel to "The Catcher in the Rye." Bookseller reports that Salinger's agent has contacted an attorney over "60 Years Later Coming Through the Rye," a sequel that generated hundreds of Twitter posts Salinger's lawyers looking into Rye sequel
guardian.co.ukBook news: Sarah Palin, Thomas Pynchon and not quite SalingerWord that a sequel to "Catcher in the Rye" is on its way was quickly followed by the assessment that since it's not by JD Salinger, calling it a sequel is more hoax than helpful. The new book, which follows the New York adventures of 76-year-old Holden Catcher in the Rye Sequel Probably a Hoax And you thought you'd heard the last from Holden Caulfield… Sequel to Catcher in the Rye penned