J. D. Salinger

Sieppari ruispellossa on yhdysvaltalaisen kirjailijan J. D. Salingerin vuonna 1951 ilmestynyt kuuluisa romaani. Teos käsittelee kapinahenkisen koululaisnuoren Holden Caulfieldin jokseenkin päämäärättömiä seikkailuja New Yorkissa ja hänen mietteitään elämästä ja maailmasta. Teoksen ensimmäinen suomentaja oli Pentti …

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 …

A collection of nine exceptional stories from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the RyeAn 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 …

'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 …