Perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation (New York Times), J. D. Salinger'sFranny and Zooeycollects two works of fiction about the Glass family originally published inThe New Yorker.
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.
A novel in two halves,Franny and Zooeybrilliantly 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.
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
The New Yorker. Between 1951 and 1963 he produced four book-length works of fiction:
The Catcher in the Rye;
Nine Stories;
Franny and Zooey; and
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour--An Introduction. The books have been embraced and celebrated throughout the world and have been credited with instilling in many a lifelong love of reading. 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.
Janet Malcolm,
New York Review of Books 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.
Charles Poore,
New York Times Franny and Zooeyis one of the few books that I've lSC
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