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001 2013045583
003 DLC
005 20150206084159.0
008 140115s2014 mau b 000 0beng
010 $a 2013045583
020 $a9780544261990 (hardback)
020 $a0544261992 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPS3537.A426$bZ565 2014
082 00 $a813/.54$aB$223
084 $aBIO007000$aHIS036060$2bisacsh
100 1 $aBeller, Thomas,$eauthor.
245 10 $aJ.D. Salinger :$bthe escape artist /$cThomas Beller.
264 1 $aBoston :$bNew Harvest, Houghtin Mifflin Harcourt,$c2014.
300 $a181 pages ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aIcons series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $a"Three years after his death at ninety-one, J.D. Salinger remains our most mythic writer. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) became an American classic, and he was for a long time the writer for The New Yorker. Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters introduced, by way of the Glass family, a new type in contemporary literature: the introspective, voluble cast of characters whose stage is the Upper East Side of New York. But fame proved a burden, and in 1963 Salinger fled to New Hampshire, spending the next half century in isolation. Beller has followed his subject's trail, from his Park Avenue childhood to his final refuge, barnstorming across New England to visit various Salinger shrines, interviewing just about everyone alive who ever knew Salinger. The result is a quest biography in the tradition of Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage, a book as much about the biographer as about the subject--two vivid, entertaining stories in one"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aSalinger, J. D.$q(Jerome David),$d1919-2010.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.$2bisacsh