For Esmé - with Love and Squalor
And Other Stories
$25.55
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2018
Summary
In honour of the centennial of J. D. Salinger, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback.
An American soldier has a strange encounter with an orphaned English teenager the night before he leaves for war. A four-year-old boy runs away in a dinghy; a missionary’s child is kidnapped by Chinese bandits. A honeymoon in Florida goes awry with tragic consequences. Including the first stories to feature Salinger’s beloved Glass family characters, this brillian…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241985922 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241985927 |
| Author: | J.D. Salinger |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 204mm x 138mm x 20mm |
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His work meant a lot to me when I was a young person and his writing still sings.
His work meant a lot to me when I was a young person and his writing still sings. – Dave EggersIt was a very pure voice he had. There was no one like him – Martin AmisHe was the poet of youthful alienation before youth really knew what that was * Sunday Times *
About The Author
J.D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger was born in 1919 and died in January 2010. He grew up in New York City and wrote short stories from an early age, but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication in the New Yorker of ‘A Perfect Day for Bananafish’. The Catcher in the Rye was his first and only novel, published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated, taught and reprinted texts, and has sold over 65 million copies worldwide. He went on to write three further, critically acclaimed, best-selling works of fiction- Franny and Zooey, For Esme - With Love And Squalor and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour - An Introduction. Salinger continued to write throughout his life and left behind a large body of unpublished work.
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