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Franny and Zooey - by J D Salinger (Paperback)

Franny and Zooey - by  J D Salinger (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation (<i>New York Times</i>), J. D. Salinger's <i>Franny and Zooey</i> collects two works of fiction about the Glass family originally published in <i>The New Yorker</i>.</b><br><i>Everything everybody does is so--I don't know--not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and--sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.</i><br>A novel in two halves, <i>Franny and Zooey</i> brilliantly captures the emotional strains and traumas of entering adulthood. It is a gleaming example of the wit, precision, and poignancy that have made J. D. Salinger one of America's most beloved writers.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Franny and Zooey</i> is one of the few books that I've returned to every year...I love it for its comedy--Salinger's dialogue is wonderful--for its mocking fondness, and as a portrait of a troubled, loving family. I still treasure it and I don't think I've read anything since that has affected me and inspired me as much, both as a reader and a writer.<br>--<b>David Nicholls</b>, <i><b>The Guardian</b></i><br><br>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...I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life.<br>--<b>J. D. Salinger</b><br><br>Brilliant...What makes reading Salinger such a consistently bracing experience is our sense of always being in the presence of something that--whatever it is--isn't fishy. <br>--<b>Janet Malcolm</b>, <i><b>New York Review of Books</b></i><br><br>You can see Salinger's increasing mastery on page after page...If the world survives, as it shows a magnificently stubborn intention of doing, Mr. Salinger's stories will decidedly continue to widen the range of contemporary reading.<br>--<b>Charles Poore</b>, <i><b>New York Times</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>J. D. Salinger was born in New York City on January 1, 1919, and died in Cornish, New Hampshire, on January 27, 2010. His stories appeared in many magazines, most notably <i>The New Yorker</i>. Between 1951 and 1963 he produced four book-length works of fiction: <i>The Catcher in the Rye</i>; <i>Nine Stories</i>; <i>Franny and Zooey</i>; and <i>Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour--An Introduction</i>. The books have been embraced and celebrated throughout the world and have been credited with instilling in many a lifelong love of reading.

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