<p>One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now comes a new biography that Peter Ackroyd in The Times of London calls "energetic and magnificently researched"-a book from which "a true picture of Salinger emerges." Filled with new information and revelations-garnered from countless interviews, letters, and public records-J. D. Salinger presents an extraordinary life that spanned nearly the entire twentieth century. Kenneth Slawenski 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 ("a living hell") of which he never spoke and which haunted him forever.</p>

J.D. Salinger a Life

Religion & Spirituality

Kenneth Slawenski

Christian Books & Bibles

Random House]

<p>Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, Very thick Royal 8vo. 480 pp. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind, clean crisp corners and edges. In bright silver lettered brown cloth together with original colour pictorial dustwrapper in very good condition. The life and work of the famous recluse 'in forensic detail'.</p>

J.D. Salinger: A Life Raised High

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Pomona

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