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"The hero-narrator of this novel is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he...
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction offers readers a nuanced exploration of the Glass family, particularly focusing on Seymour Glass, the enigmatic older brother of the narrator, Buddy. In Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, Buddy recounts the day of Seymour's wedding, which ends in chaos when Seymour disappears. This absence forces Buddy into close quarters with baffled wedding guests, where they begin to uncover glimpses...
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A young and ambitious writer named Jerome David Salinger set his goals very high very early in his career. He almost desperately wished to publish his early stories in The New Yorker magazine, the pinnacle, he felt, of America's literary world. But such was not to be for several long years and the length of one long world war. The New Yorker, whose tastes in literary matters were and remain notoriously prim and fickle, was not quite ready for this...
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English
Description
A young and ambitious writer named Jerome David Salinger set his goals very high very early in his career. He almost desperately wished to publish his early stories in The New Yorker magazine, the pinnacle, he felt, of America's literary world. But such was not to be for several long years and the length of one long world war. The New Yorker, whose tastes in literary matters were and remain notoriously prim and fickle, was not quite ready for this...
6) Nine stories
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195 pages ; 17 cm
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"Presents nine short stories by twentieth-century American author J.D. Salinger, most shadowed by the legacy of war." *** "This collection of stories deals mainly with sensitive and troubled adolescents and children."