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I’ve been a devoted Salinger fan ever since Holden Caulfield made me cry in the fifties. After that, I devoured every Salinger book I could find, thereby acquainting myself with the fascinating Glass family.
In this book, narrator Buddy Glass reads a letter written years before by his precocious brother Seymour at age seven. You get the picture: Salinger is at it again, wryly wrangling quirky commentary on everything from family relationships to discourses on God. And it’s funny too, of course.
This book was first published by The New Yorker in 1965, taking up almost the entire issue (yes,…
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