J.D. Salinger : the escape artist / Thomas Beller.
J.D. Salinger : the escape artist / Thomas Beller.
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Boston : New Harvest, Houghtin Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Call Numbers
G 2014/4863
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Language
English
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Physical content
181 pages ; 22 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
1923: On running away -- The gift -- Lost -- 1930s: Ham and cheese -- The Myron arms -- Comanches -- 1932: McBurney and Central Park -- The Salinger triptych -- 1934-1936: Salinger the sublime -- The perversities of Princeton -- Samizdat Salinger -- 1937: Vienna -- "A girl I knew" -- The bacon king...
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Publisher
Boston : New Harvest, Houghtin Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2014.
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Summary
"Three years after his death at ninety-one, J.D. Salinger remains our most mythic writer. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) became an American classic, and he was for a long time the writer for The New Yorker. Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters introduced, by way of the Glass family, a new type in contemporary literature: the int...
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J.D. Salinger : the escape artist / Thomas Beller.
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G 2014/4863
Record Identifier
74VKK0ArReNZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKK0ArReNZ
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ISBN
0544261992 (hardback)
9780544261990 (hardback)
DDC
813.54
MMS ID
991021992269702626
