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Nine Stories

by J. D. Salinger

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ISBN13: 9780316769501
ISBN10: 0316769509
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A collection of brilliant, sad, and influential stories that includes favorites like "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," "Teddy," and "For Esmé, with Love and Squalor," as well as the underrated gem, "Just Before the War With the Eskimos." Almost invariably, Salinger's tormented characters are trying to search for some sort of peace within a hell that is often of their own devising.

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"J.D. Salinger's writing is original, first rate, serious and beautiful. Here are nine of his stories, and one further reason that they are so interesting, and so powerful seen all together, is that they are paradoxes. From the outside, they are often very funny; inside, they are about heartbreak, and convey it; they can do this because they are pure." Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review, 4/5/1953

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Since the publication of The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, the works of J.D. Salinger have been acclaimed for their humor, intensity, and their lack of phoniness. A collection of short fiction, Nine Stories contains works with those qualities that make Salinger such a well-loved author.

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A collection of nine classic Salinger short stories.
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saturnineinch, December 20, 2007 (view all comments by saturnineinch)
Beautiful melancholic portraits of humans in society. Themes of love, death, loss of innocence, despair, and redemption. If you liked Catcher in the Rye, you will love these stories.
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David Feucht, July 20, 2007 (view all comments by David Feucht)
9 short stories by J.D. Salinger about a various range of characters, each of which he somehow manages to make charming and engaging, and each story leaves a distinct impression on the reader. He writes characters that are so ordinary as to be extraordinarily interesting... because they feel like actual people.
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Disco_Maniac, March 1, 2007 (view all comments by Disco_Maniac)
This book is excelent!!! All my friends have read it and they say it is on their top ten list. I could not let go of it when I picked it up until I was to the end. So hold on to your hats and don't get blown away by "Nine Stories."
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780316769501
Author:
Salinger, J. D.
Publisher:
Little Brown and Company
Location:
Boston, Mass. :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Social life and customs
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Short stories
Subject:
United States Social life and customs.
Copyright:
1991
Edition Number:
Reprint ed.
Edition Description:
Little, Brown and Company ed.
Series Volume:
2604
Publication Date:
May 1, 1991
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
208
Dimensions:
6.88x4.48x.56 in. .22 lbs.
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