Salinger - Softcover

Shields, Professor David; Salerno, Shane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1476747032 ISBN 13: 9781476747033

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Export, 2011

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-03 Language: English Publisher: Simon Schuster 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 JD Salinger is 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 Rye has 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...

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Review

A stupendous work of research. . . . hugely impressive . . . I predict with the utmost confidence that, after this, the world will not need another Salinger biography -- (Sunday Times) )

An explosive new biography . . . Shields and Salerno have pulled off several coups . . . impressively non-judgmental (Daily Telegraph) )

A fresh look at J.D. Salinger s triumphant, traumatic, tawdry life . . . [Salinger] presents a decade s worth of genuinely valuable research (Time) )

Eloquently written and exhaustively reported . . . Salinger is an unmitigated success. . . . Shields and Salerno have struck journalistic gold. Salinger is a revelation, and offers the most complete picture of an American icon, a man deified by silence, haunted by war, frustrated in love and more frail and human than he ever wanted the world to know. . . . A startlingly revealing story -- USA Today)

Revealing . . . a sharp-edged portrait (New York Times) )

Unprecedented . . . A masterwork . . . An exquisitely researched and beautifully engineered piece of storytelling about one of modern history s most enigmatic personas -- Maria Popova (Brain Pickings) )

Salinger gets the goods on an author s reclusive life . . . It s the most common story in the world, and it strips away the sheen of his exceptionalism, trading in his genius for something much more real (Los Angeles Times) )

David Shields and Shane Salerno crack open the mythos of the reclusive author. . . . Salinger is the thorny, complicated portrait that its thorny, complicated subject deserves. . . . The book offers the most complete rendering yet (The Washington Post) )

Engrossing (The Wall Street Journal) )

Taken as a whole the memories, the documents, the pictures the book feels as close as we'll ever get to being inside Salinger s head (Entertainment Weekly) )

Providing by far the most detailed report of previously unreleased material, the book . . . both fleshes out and challenges aspects of the author s legend. . . . [Salinger] has new information well beyond any possible posthumous fiction (Associated Press) )

Refreshingly frank . . . thrillingly told . . . Salinger amply documents the author s youthful arrogance and selfishness, his infatuation with his own cleverness and his inability to see the world from the perspective of anyone who wasn t a lot like himself (Salon) )

An explosive biography (People) )

Thoroughly revealing . . . This book helps defend the affirmative response and whets the appetite for the Salinger books to come --(Kirkus Reviews)

About the Author

David Shields is the author of two novels, Dead Languages and Heroes; a collection of linked stories, A Handbook for Drowning; and three previous works of non-fiction. He is a professor in the English department at the University of Washington.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Export
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1476747032
• ISBN 13: 9781476747033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100