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One of the most popular and strange statistics in American literary background, J. D. Salinger eluded followers and journalists for the majority of his life. Now comes a new biography that Peter Ackroyd in the Times of London telephone calls "energetic and magnificently researched" - a e book from which "a true picture of Salinger emerges". Filled with new information and revelations garnered from many interviews, words, and public record information, J. D. Salinger: A Life presents a fantastic life that spanned almost the whole 20th hundred years. Kenneth Slawenski explores Salinger's privileged youth, long obscured by misrepresentation and rumor, revealing the great, sarcastic, vulnerable child of a disapproving daddy and doting mother and his entry into a interpersonal world where Gloria Vanderbilt dismissively referred to him as "a Jewish boy from NY". Here too are accounts of Salinger's first busted heart - Eugene O'Neill's little girl, Oona, still left him for the much more aged Charlie Chaplin - and the damaging World Conflict II service of which he never spoke, and which haunted him forever. J. D. Salinger features all the dazzle of the author's early on writing successes, his dramatic encounters with luminaries from Ernest Hemingway to Laurence Olivier to Elia Kazan, his unusual office intrigues with famous New Yorker editors and authors, and the beautiful triumph of The Catcher in the Rye, which would both make him world-famous and hasten his retreat into the hillsides of New Hampshire. Whether it's revealing the facts of his hasty, short-lived first matrimony or his lifelong determination to Eastern faith, which would dictate his attitudes toward sex, nutrition, solitude, and creativeness, J. D. Salinger is this original author's unforgettable account in full - one that no enthusiast of literature can afford to miss.
