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Salinger
Salinger
Book Category:
Fiction > General
Author:
David Shields and Shane Salerno
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 13:
9781476747033
Price:
USD 18.00
Publication Year:
2013

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Simon & Schuster UK.

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Book Description

Deepening our understanding of a major literary and cultural figure, and filled with many fascinating revelations-- including the birth defect that was the real reason Salinger was initially turned down for military service; the previously unknown romantic interest who was fourteen when Salinger met her and, he said, inspired the title character of "For Esme--with Love and Squalor"; the first photographs ever seen of Salinger at war and the last known photos of him alive; never-before-published love letters that Salinger, at fifty-three, wrote to an eighteen-year-old Joyce Maynard; and, finally, what millions have been waiting decades for: the contents of his legendary vault--Salinger is a monumental book about the cost of war and the cost of art.