J. D Salinger
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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"The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergraduate who is becoming disenchanted with the selfishness and inauthenticity she perceives all around her. The novella, Zooey, is named for Zooey Glass, the second youngest member of the Glass family. As his younger sister, Franny suffers a spiritual and existential breakdown in her parents' Manhattan living room-leaving Bessie, her mother, deeply concerned-Zooey...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
The last book-length work of fiction by J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime collects two novellas about "one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully realized families in all fiction" (New York Times).
These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour Glass—the eldest son of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family—as recalled by his closest brother, Buddy.
"He...
These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour Glass—the eldest son of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family—as recalled by his closest brother, Buddy.
"He...