Sergeant Salinger

Author : Jerome Charyn
Publisher : Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN 13 : 1942658753
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sergeant Salinger written by Jerome Charyn and published by Bellevue Literary Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combat “Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons.” —New Yorker J.D. Salinger, mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn’s Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war—from the landing on D-Day to the relentless hand-to-hand combat in the hedgerows of Normandy, to the Battle of the Bulge, and finally to the first Allied entry into a Bavarian death camp, where corpses were piled like cordwood. After the war, interned in a Nuremberg psychiatric clinic, Salinger became enchanted with a suspected Nazi informant. They married, but not long after he brought her home to New York, the marriage collapsed. Maladjusted to civilian life, he lived like a “spook,” with invisible stripes on his shoulder, the ghosts of the murdered inside his head, and stories to tell. Grounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, Sergeant Salinger is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind a novel that has marked generations. Jerome Charyn is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Cesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin. He lives in New York.

Author : Raychel Haugrud Reiff
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761425946
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book J.D. Salinger written by Raychel Haugrud Reiff and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2008 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of writer J.D. Salinger that describes his era, his major works--especially The catcher in the rye, his life, and the legacy of his writing.

Author : Sarah Graham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134286554
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye written by Sarah Graham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951) is a twentieth-century classic. Despite being one of the most frequently banned books in America, generations of readers have identified with the narrator, Holden Caulfield, an angry young man who articulates the confusion, cynicism and vulnerability of adolescence with humour and sincerity. This guide to Salinger’s provocative novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of The Catcher in the Rye a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new critical essays on the The Catcher in the Rye, by Sally Robinson, Renee R. Curry, Denis Jonnes, Livia Hekanaho and Clive Baldwin, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of The Catcher in the Rye and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Salinger’s text.

Author : Henry Anatole Grunwald
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061852503
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salinger written by Henry Anatole Grunwald and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now back in print—a timeless collection of essays celebrating one of American literature's most acclaimed and enigmatic icons J. D. Salinger's provocative writing and unmatched eye for the contours of American youth have earned him a place in literary and cultural history. Few living American writers enjoy more exuberant and widespread acclaim—though in his ninety years Salinger has published only one novel, the extraordinary The Catcher in the Rye, and several enormously successful short story collections. In 1962—before the shy and elusive author made his mysterious withdrawal from public life—editor Henry Anatole Grunwald asked twenty-six of Salinger's peers to explore the perplexing questions surrounding the writer and his work. What manner of man was he? Was he primarily a social commentator, a satirist, a religious fanatic, or simply a genius? This new edition of the classic work, revived in the ninth decade of Salinger's life, stands as an extraordinary time capsule—an intimate examination and appreciation of a singular American literary artist whose work remains powerful and true to this day.

Author : Paul Alexander
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1580631487
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salinger written by Paul Alexander and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander offers the first full-length popular account of American literature's great recluse in over 30 years, giving new insights into the author of "The Catcher in the Rye".

Author : Stanley P. Baldwin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544180763
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CliffsNotes on Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye written by Stanley P. Baldwin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. CliffsNotes on The Catcher in the Rye introduces you to a coming-of-age novel with a twist. J.D. Salinger's best-known work is more realistic, more lifelike and authentic than some other representatives of the genre. Get to know the unforgettable main character, Holden Caulfield, as he navigates the dangers and risks of growing up. This study guide enables you to keep up with all of the major themes and symbols of the novel, as well as the characters and plot. You'll also find valuable information about Salinger's life and background. Other features that help you study include Character analyses of major players A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Critical essays A review section that tests your knowledge A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

Author : Christine Kerr
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791094839
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloom's how to Write about J.D. Salinger written by Christine Kerr and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an introduction on writing good essays, this book presents suggested topics and strategies for drafting a paper on J.D. Salinger and his works.

Author : David Shields
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471130401
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salinger written by David Shields and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people-and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company-The Private War of J.D. Salingeris a global cultural event: the definitive biography of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth century. For more than fifty years, the ever elusive author of The Catcher in the Ryehas been the subject of a relentless stream of newspaper and magazine articles as well as several biographies. Yet all of these attempts have been hampered by a fundamental lack of access and by the persistent recycling of inaccurate information. Salinger remains, astonishingly, an enigma. The complex and contradictory human being behind the myth has never been revealed. No longer. In the eight years since The Private War of J.D. Salingerwas begun, and especially in the three years since Salinger's death, the authors interviewed on five continents more than 200 people, many of whom had previously refused to go on the record about their relationship with Salinger. This oral biography offers direct eyewitness accounts from Salinger's World War II brothers-in-arms, his family members, his close friends, his lovers, his classmates, his neighbors, his editors, his publishers, his New Yorkercolleagues, and people with whom he had relationships that were secret even to his own family. Shields and Salerno illuminate most brightly the last fifty-six years of Salinger's life: a period that, until now, had remained completely dark to biographers. Provided unprecedented access to never-before-published photographs (more than 100 throughout the book), diaries, letters, legal records, and secret documents, readers will feel they have, for the first time, gotten beyond Salinger's meticulously built-up wall. The result is the definitive portrait of one of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth century.

Author : Kenneth Slawenski
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679604790
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book J. D. Salinger written by Kenneth Slawenski and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The inspiration for the major motion picture Rebel in the Rye One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, the author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now he is the subject of this definitive biography, which is filled with new information and revelations garnered from countless interviews, letters, and public records. 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. Here too are accounts of Salinger’s first broken heart—after Eugene O’Neill’s daughter, Oona, left him—and the devastating World War II service that haunted him forever. J. D. Salinger features this author’s dramatic encounters with luminaries from Ernest Hemingway to Elia Kazan, his office intrigues with famous New Yorker editors and writers, and the stunning triumph of The Catcher in the Rye, which would both make him world-famous and hasten his retreat into the hills of New Hampshire. J. D. Salinger is this unique author’s unforgettable story in full—one that no lover of literature can afford to miss. Praise for J. D. Salinger: A Life “Startling . . . insightful . . . [a] terrific literary biography.”—USA Today “It is unlikely that any author will do a better job than Mr. Slawenski capturing the glory of Salinger’s life.”—The Wall Street Journal “Slawenski fills in a great deal and connects the dots assiduously; it’s unlikely that any future writer will uncover much more about Salinger than he has done.”—Boston Sunday Globe “Offers perhaps the best chance we have to get behind the myth and find the man.”—Newsday “[Slawenski has] greatly fleshed out and pinned down an elusive story with precision and grace.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Earnest, sympathetic and perceptive . . . [Slawenski] does an evocative job of tracing the evolution of Salinger’s work and thinking.”—The New York Times

Author : Eberhard Alsen
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9780313310782
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Reader's Guide to J. D. Salinger written by Eberhard Alsen and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys and discusses the entire body of Salinger's work and presents extensive bibliographical information.