This is a book with too much disclosure about the Salinger family.

As understood, achievement does not suggest that you have fantastic points. And yet she managed to graduate with highest honors from college in her mid-twenties and spent a few years at Oxford.

Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside.

Fabulous insight into one of my favourite authors in my younger years At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less. She writes VERY well, and of course if Salinger was an icon to you, you'll be interested in the story of this dysfunctional family with more than a whiff of mental illness.

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A picture of JD Salinger emerges - he becomes a recognizable archetype of everyone's least favorite uncle, with irrational hatreds and pretensions and a chilling inability to relate to children, his wife, or his family. Her family was extremely disfunctional and she suffered because of it. The tone of the book as Margaret talks about dad gets very dark and ugly by the end. Maybe we don't wanna know. Salinger.

This is why I give this book four stars -- another go at the editor's desk and it would have been five. On the writing alone I would give it three stars, but I gave it two because this book paints one of my favorite authors, JD Salinger, as a fucking moron and a really shitty guy.

It's Margaret Salinger's autobiography, his daughter, and her first novel.

Absolutely painful but also empowering.

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Paperback. What I hadn't known, and learned from Peggy's memoir, was that her father landed on Omaha Beach on D-day and fought his way across much of Europe, had a mental breakdown near the end of the war and was briefly hospitalized, but managed to talk his way out of that and got a normal discharge.
We learn that J.Ds mother, memorably fictionalized in some of his best work, was in truth an Irish colleen from County Cork who converted and kept her secret from her boy, much as Chris Hitchens’ mother was to do in another generation.

Sure she uses some of his character's to illustrate her point of view, and I feel she is entitled as it seems apparent some aspects of her life have been molded into his characters. Soft cover. In 2000 she published Dream Catcher: A Memoir, ISBN 0-671-04282-3, a "tell-all" book about her father. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. She tells the now oft told tale of the great artist who was, surprise!— an inferior father and atrocious lover and husband.

It was a big move from magazine to book.” He was a very private intriguing kind of person and I wanted to read what it was like for his daughter growing up in his hidden environment in the woods of NH.

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She seems to have forgiven her mother's brutality while shifting to blaming her father for his lack of parenting abilities and his rather esoteric approach to life.

Video An illustration of an audio speaker. Scribner. Is this the same guy that wrote Catcher in the Rye and Nine Stories?" For”“During the fall of 1961, two of my father’s Glass children, Franny and Zooey, ventured beyond the safe confines of The New Yorker and were introduced to the readership of the world at large.

Dream Catcher by Margaret A. Salinger - In her much-anticipated memoir, Margaret A. Salinger writes about life with her famously reclusive father, ... Ms. Salinger has written a book that is eloquent, spellbinding, and wise, yet at the same time retains the intimacy of a novel. But here's what I thought when I read the book: it needed just a little bit more editting.