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Salinger : the classic critical and personal portrait / introduced and edited by Henry Anatole Grunwald.

Title
Salinger : the classic critical and personal portrait / introduced and edited by Henry Anatole Grunwald.
Publication
New York : Harper Perennial, 2009.

Details

Additional Authors
Grunwald, Henry A. (Henry Anatole)
Description
xxix, 287 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
Includes criticism of J. D. Salinger by Arthur Mizener, Alfred Kazin, John Updike, Granville Hicks, Leslie Fiedler, Maxwell Geismar and others.
Subject
Salinger, J. D. 1919-2010
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The invisible man: a biographical collage -- The good American / Arthur Mizener, David L. Stevenson -- Is "cute" the word? / Alfred Kazin, John Updike, Leslie Fiedler -- Magician, clubman or guru / Seymour Krim, David Leitch, Joan Didion, Isa Kapp, George Steiner -- A slight case of incest / Maxwell Geismar, Frederick L. Gwynn, Joseph L. Blotner -- The cures for banana fever / William Wiegand -- Sensitive outsider vs. vulgarian / Ihab Hassan -- Between miracle and suicide / Josephine Jacobsen, Donald Barr, Dan Wakefield, Granville Hicks -- Holden and Huck: a quest / Arthur Heiserman, James E. Miller, Jr., Edgar Branch -- Against the cult of the child / Leslie Fiedler -- The phoenix / Martin Green, Christopher Parker -- Postscripts: Appendix A: The early stories / Gwynn and Blotner -- Appendix B: The language of the catcher in the rye / Donald P. Costello.
ISBN
  • 9780061852503
  • 0061852503