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Salinger, September 2013
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Simon & Schuster
September 2013
On Sale: September 3, 2013
720 pages
ISBN: 1476744831
EAN: 9781476744834
Kindle: B00BAWQ6GE
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Non-Fiction Biography
Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive
interviews with more than 200 people—and published in
coordination with the international theatrical release of a
major documentary film from the Weinstein
Company—Salinger is a global cultural event: the
definitive biography of one of the most beloved and
mysterious figures of the twentieth century. For more
than fifty years, the ever elusive author of The Catcher
in the Rye has been the subject of a relentless stream
of newspaper and magazine articles as well as several
biographies. Yet all of these attempts have been hampered by
a fundamental lack of access and by the persistent recycling
of inaccurate information. Salinger remains, astonishingly,
an enigma. The complex and contradictory human being behind
the myth has never been revealed.
No longer.
In the eight years since Salinger was begun, and
especially in the three years since Salinger’s death, the
authors interviewed on five continents more than 200 people,
many of whom had previously refused to go on the record
about their relationship with Salinger. This oral biography
offers direct eyewitness accounts from Salinger’s World War
II brothers-in-arms, his family members, his close friends,
his lovers, his classmates, his neighbors, his editors, his
publishers, his New Yorker colleagues, and people
with whom he had relationships that were secret even to his
own family. Shields and Salerno illuminate most brightly the
last fifty-six years of Salinger’s life: a period that,
until now, had remained completely dark to biographers.
Provided unprecedented access to never-before-published
photographs (more than 100 throughout the book), diaries,
letters, legal records, and secret documents, readers will
feel they have, for the first time, gotten beyond Salinger’s
meticulously built-up wall. The result is the definitive
portrait of one of the most fascinating figures of the
twentieth century.
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