Jerome David Salinger

Els dos llargs dies que Holden Cauldfield, el jove protagonista, passa a Nova York són la seva fugida personal. Fuig del món dels adults, un món que rebutja, intentant protegir la seva infantesa, un territori pur que ja no és el seu. Holden Cauldfield sap que s'està fent gran i que no pot deturar aquest procés …

The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a …

Nou contes és una col·lecció de relats breus de l'escriptor estatunidenc J. D. Salinger. Els contes van aparèixer publicats separadament entre els anys 1948-1953, i el recull va aparèixer l'abril de 1953. El llibre inclou alguns dels contes més populars de Salinger, com ara "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" i "For Esmé – …

'He was a great many things to a great many people while he lived, and virtually all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat outsized family. Surely he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo, and …

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction is a single volume featuring two novellas by J. D. Salinger, which were previously published in The New Yorker: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. Little, Brown republished them in this anthology in 1963. It was the first …