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My Salinger Year

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The Print Room
(Lilley nr Luton, Reino Unido)

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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Jacket by Greg Heinimann Ilustrador. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression with full number line. Some very slight edge wear to top of jacket and spine, top corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 272pp. At twenty three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood panelled agency, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old time agents doze at their desks after martini lunches, and at night she goes home to the tiny, threadbare Brooklyn apartment she shares with her socialist boyfriend. Precariously balanced between glamour and poverty, surrounded by titanic personalities and struggling to trust her own artistic sense, Joanna is given the task of answering Salinger's voluminous fan mail. But as she reads the candid heart wrenching letters from his readers around the world, she finds herself unable to type out the agency's decades old form response. Instead, drawn inexorably into the emotional world of Salinger's devotees, she abandons the template and begins writing back. Poignant, keenly observed and irresistibly funny, 'My Salinger Year' is a memoir about literary New York in the late 1990s, a pre digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself swept into one of the last great stories and entangled with one of the last great figures of the century. Above all, it is the coming of age story of a talented writer and a testament to the universal power of books to shape our lives. Nº de ref. del artículo: 005918

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