A collection of nine exceptional stories from the much-loved author of _The Catcher in the Rye_ An American soldier has a strange encounter with an orphaned English teenager the night before he leaves for war. A four-year-old boy runs away in a dinghy; a missionary's child is kidnapped by Chinese ba
For Esmé: with Love and Squalor
✍ Scribed by J. D. Salinger
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 1953, 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 173 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0241988810
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✦ Synopsis
'This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me.'
This collection of nine stories includes the first appearance of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family, introducing Seymour Glass in the unforgettable 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'.
'The most perfectly balanced collection of stories I know' Ann Patchett
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