A Perfect Day for Bananafish. What a whimsical name for such a serious story. I will be honest, the first pass through this story led me to believe that Seymour was sexually interested in children and as a result decided to kill himself. There were several things that led me to believe that. For ...
I have this quite new boxed set of the Salinger books. All my Salingers were the worse for wear and I “needed” a new set, I decided. I pulled out this one because I am reading short stories and decided that it is possible to read several books of short stories at the same time. I have read Nine S...
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.The blinking cursor that preceded this review, the place-holder of possibility before the big bang of creation, speaks volumes when taken in relation to J.D. Salinger’s exquisite Franny and Zooey. In a novel about identity, about forging...
Anyone who has read Salinger's New Yorker stories--particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man & For Esme--With Love & Squalor, won't be surprised by the fact that his 1st novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an an...