A literary assistant discovers Salinger's devotees.
"My Salinger Year" would be a good choice for those who enjoy memoirs and coming-of-age stories. The book provides a glimpse into the world of J.D. Salinger and the task of answering his fan mail. The most unique feature of the book is its portrayal of the pre-digital world of the late 1990s literary scene in New York, where the protagonist is trying to find her artistic sense while living in a tiny apartment with her socialist boyfriend. Readers who are interested in the power of books to shape lives would find this memoir engaging.
ISBN: 9781408855508
Authors:
Joanna Rakoff
Publisher: Bloomsbury ANZ
Date of Publication: 2014-06-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections:
Biographies & Memoirs
Goodreads rating: 3.77
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Description
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 storied 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. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/my-salin...
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