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Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN-10
1942658745
ISBN-13
9781942658740
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6038605855
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Book Title
Sergeant Salinger
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Biographical
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
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0.8 in
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11.6 Oz
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8.2 in
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5.5 in
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Trade
LCCN
2020-002574
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
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The result is at once surprising and very entertaining." -- BookPage "For half a century, [Charyn] has been an unpredictable, unclassifiable, and above all exactingly smart author." -- Open Letters Review "Charyn makes artful use of historical fact and fiction's panache." -- Kirkus Reviews "Wherever he takes us, Charyn's mind is always agile, and his prose is stunningly electric." -- Jewish Book Council, Praise for Sergeant Salinger "[A] literary tour de force. . . . Charyn vividly portrays [J.D. Salinger's] journey from slick short story writer to suffering artist. The winning result humanizes a legend." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This supremely engaging novel leaves us with a new, sometimes heart-rending understanding of [J.D. Salinger] and the times in which he came of age." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Charyn deftly leaves the reader wondering whether Holden Caulfield's teenage angst was really Salinger's personification of post-traumatic stress disorder. . . . Engrossing." -- Library Journal "Nuanced and acutely perceptive. . . . Charyn offers an astute psychological portrait of an elusive yet vastly compelling subject." -- Booklist Select Praise for Jerome Charyn "Jerome Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible." -- Tom Bissell "Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature." -- Michael Chabon "Charyn is a one off: no other living American writer crafts novels with his vibrancy of historical imagination." -- William Giraldi "[Charyn's] sentences are pure vernacular music, his voice unmistakable." -- Jonathan Lethem "One of our most rewarding novelists." -- Larry McMurtry "Among Charyn's writerly gifts is a dazzling energya highly inflected rapid-fire prose that pulls us along like a pony cart over rough terrain." -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books "Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons." -- New Yorker "One of our most intriguing fiction writers." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "Absolutely unique among American writers." -- Los Angeles Times "A contemporary American Balzac." -- Newsday "Charyn's blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words." -- Washington Post "[Charyn] writes with the sort of whirlwind energy that turns the seediest story into a breakneck adventure." -- Wall Street Journal "Charyn has a gift for the unexpected, both linguistically and narratively. . . . The result is at once surprising and very entertaining." -- BookPage "For half a century, [Charyn] has been an unpredictable, unclassifiable, and above all exactingly smart author." -- Open Letters Review "Charyn makes artful use of historical fact and fiction's panache." -- Kirkus Reviews "Wherever he takes us, Charyn's mind is always agile, and his prose is stunningly electric." -- Jewish Book Council, Praise for Sergeant Salinger "[A] literary tour de force. . . . Charyn vividly portrays [J.D. Salinger's] journey from slick short story writer to suffering artist. The winning result humanizes a legend." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Nuanced and acutely perceptive. . . . Charyn offers an astute psychological portrait of an elusive yet vastly compelling subject." -- Booklist Select Praise for Jerome Charyn "Jerome Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible." -- Tom Bissell "Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature." -- Michael Chabon "Charyn is a one off: no other living American writer crafts novels with his vibrancy of historical imagination." -- William Giraldi "[Charyn's] sentences are pure vernacular music, his voice unmistakable." -- Jonathan Lethem "One of our most rewarding novelists." -- Larry McMurtry "Among Charyn's writerly gifts is a dazzling energya highly inflected rapid-fire prose that pulls us along like a pony cart over rough terrain." -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books "Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons." -- New Yorker "One of our most intriguing fiction writers." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "Absolutely unique among American writers." -- Los Angeles Times "A contemporary American Balzac." -- Newsday "Charyn's blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words." -- Washington Post "[Charyn] writes with the sort of whirlwind energy that turns the seediest story into a breakneck adventure." -- Wall Street Journal "Charyn has a gift for the unexpected, both linguistically and narratively. . . . The result is at once surprising and very entertaining." -- BookPage "For half a century, [Charyn] has been an unpredictable, unclassifiable, and above all exactingly smart author." -- Open Letters Review "Charyn makes artful use of historical fact and fiction's panache." -- Kirkus Reviews "Wherever he takes us, Charyn's mind is always agile, and his prose is stunningly electric." -- Jewish Book Council, Praise for Sergeant Salinger "Two intriguing suggestions are buried deeply in the story that Charyn tells so compellingly in Sergeant Salinger . One is that Salinger could have but chose not to write one of the great war novels of the twentieth century. (In a real sense, Charyn has done it for him.) The other is that Salinger's experience of war drove him to explore only the inner lives of the characters he invented and to hide his own inner life from the generations of readers who revere him." -- Jewish Journal "[A] literary tour de force. . . . Charyn vividly portrays [J.D. Salinger's] journey from slick short story writer to suffering artist. The winning result humanizes a legend." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This supremely engaging novel leaves us with a new, sometimes heart-rending understanding of [J.D. Salinger] and the times in which he came of age." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Charyn deftly leaves the reader wondering whether Holden Caulfield's teenage angst was really Salinger's personification of post-traumatic stress disorder. . . . Engrossing." -- Library Journal "Nuanced and acutely perceptive. . . . Charyn offers an astute psychological portrait of an elusive yet vastly compelling subject." -- Booklist "Charyn peers into the traumas that formed the lifelong recluse and his enigmatic stories. . . . The whole story makes for an engaging and informative rendering of an important American author." -- Historical Novels Review Select Praise for Jerome Charyn "Jerome Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible." -- Tom Bissell "Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature." -- Michael Chabon "Charyn is a one off: no other living American writer crafts novels with his vibrancy of historical imagination." -- William Giraldi "[Charyn's] sentences are pure vernacular music, his voice unmistakable." -- Jonathan Lethem "One of our most rewarding novelists." -- Larry McMurtry "Among Charyn's writerly gifts is a dazzling energya highly inflected rapid-fire prose that pulls us along like a pony cart over rough terrain." -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books "Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons." -- New Yorker "One of our most intriguing fiction writers." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "Absolutely unique among American writers." -- Los Angeles Times "A contemporary American Balzac." -- Newsday "Charyn's blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words." -- Washington Post "[Charyn] writes with the sort of whirlwind energy that turns the seediest story into a breakneck adventure." -- Wall Street Journal "Charyn has a gift for the unexpected, both linguistically and narratively. . . . The result is at once surprising and very entertaining." -- BookPage "For half a century, [Charyn] has been an unpredictable, unclassifiable, and above all exactingly smart author." -- Open Letters Review "Charyn makes artful use of historical fact and fiction's panache." -- Kirkus Reviews "Charyn, as he has proven time and time again, is a master of the written word." -- Jewish Journal "Wherever he takes us, Charyn's mind is always agile, and his prose is stunningly electric." -- Jewish Book Council, Praise for Sergeant Salinger "Two intriguing suggestions are buried deeply in the story that Charyn tells so compellingly in Sergeant Salinger . One is that Salinger could have but chose not to write one of the great war novels of the twentieth century. (In a real sense, Charyn has done it for him.) The other is that Salinger''s experience of war drove him to explore only the inner lives of the characters he invented and to hide his own inner life from the generations of readers who revere him." -- Jewish Journal "Intense and absorbing." -- The Reporter "Wonderfully recreates the war years of J. D. Salinger. . . . If you are looking for a more nuanced war novel, a story of World War II and what it did to the young men forced to fight it, this is the book for you." -- Michigan Daily "[A] literary tour de force. . . . Charyn vividly portrays [J.D. Salinger''s] journey from slick short story writer to suffering artist. The winning result humanizes a legend." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This supremely engaging novel leaves us with a new, sometimes heart-rending understanding of [J.D. Salinger] and the times in which he came of age." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Charyn deftly leaves the reader wondering whether Holden Caulfield''s teenage angst was really Salinger''s personification of post-traumatic stress disorder. . . . Engrossing." -- Library Journal "Nuanced and acutely perceptive. . . . Charyn offers an astute psychological portrait of an elusive yet vastly compelling subject." -- Booklist "Charyn peers into the traumas that formed the lifelong recluse and his enigmatic stories. . . . The whole story makes for an engaging and informative rendering of an important American author." -- Historical Novels Review "An in depth look at one of our most celebrated of writers. . . . Charyn answers the question of how it was meant to be for Salinger to write that novel that unwittingly summoned the world." -- Comics Grinder Select Praise for Jerome Charyn "Jerome Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible." -- Tom Bissell "Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature." -- Michael Chabon "Charyn is a one off: no other living American writer crafts novels with his vibrancy of historical imagination." -- William Giraldi "[Charyn''s] sentences are pure vernacular music, his voice unmistakable." -- Jonathan Lethem "One of our most rewarding novelists." -- Larry McMurtry "Among Charyn''s writerly gifts is a dazzling energya highly inflected rapid-fire prose that pulls us along like a pony cart over rough terrain." -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books "Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons." -- New Yorker "One of our most intriguing fiction writers." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "Absolutely unique among American writers." -- Los Angeles Times "A contemporary American Balzac." -- Newsday "Charyn''s blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words." -- Washington Post "[Charyn] writes with the sort of whirlwind energy that turns the seediest story into a breakneck adventure." -- Wall Street Journal "Charyn has a gift for the unexpected, both linguistically and narratively. . . . The result is at once surprising and very entertaining." -- BookPage "For half a century, [Charyn] has been an unpredictable, unclassifiable, and above all exactingly smart author." -- Open Letters Review "Charyn makes artful use of historical fact and fiction''s panache." -- Kirkus Reviews "Charyn, as he has proven time and time again, is a master of the written word." -- Jewish Journal "Wherever he takes us, Charyn''s mind is always agile, and his prose is stunningly electric." -- Jewish Book Council, Praise for Sergeant Salinger "Two intriguing suggestions are buried deeply in the story that Charyn tells so compellingly in Sergeant Salinger . One is that Salinger could have but chose not to write one of the great war novels of the twentieth century. (In a real sense, Charyn has done it for him.) The other is that Salinger''s experience of war drove him to explore only the inner lives of the characters he invented and to hide his own inner life from the generations of readers who revere him." -- Jewish Journal "Wonderfully recreates the war years of J. D. Salinger. . . . If you are looking for a more nuanced war novel, a story of World War II and what it did to the young men forced to fight it, this is the book for you." -- Michigan Daily "[A] literary tour de force. . . . Charyn vividly portrays [J.D. Salinger''s] journey from slick short story writer to suffering artist. The winning result humanizes a legend." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This supremely engaging novel leaves us with a new, sometimes heart-rending understanding of [J.D. Salinger] and the times in which he came of age." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Charyn deftly leaves the reader wondering whether Holden Caulfield''s teenage angst was really Salinger''s personification of post-traumatic stress disorder. . . . Engrossing." -- Library Journal "Nuanced and acutely perceptive. . . . Charyn offers an astute psychological portrait of an elusive yet vastly compelling subject." -- Booklist "Charyn peers into the traumas that formed the lifelong recluse and his enigmatic stories. . . . The whole story makes for an engaging and informative rendering of an important American author." -- Historical Novels Review Select Praise for Jerome Charyn "Jerome Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible." -- Tom Bissell "Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature." -- Michael Chabon "Charyn is a one off: no other living American writer crafts novels with his vibrancy of historical imagination." -- William Giraldi "[Charyn''s] sentences are pure vernacular music, his voice unmistakable." -- Jonathan Lethem "One of our most rewarding novelists." -- Larry McMurtry "Among Charyn''s writerly gifts is a dazzling energya highly inflected rapid-fire prose that pulls us along like a pony cart over rough terrain." -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books "Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons." -- New Yorker "One of our most intriguing fiction writers." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "Absolutely unique among American writers." -- Los Angeles Times "A contemporary American Balzac." -- Newsday "Charyn''s blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words." -- Washington Post "[Charyn] writes with the sort of whirlwind energy that turns the seediest story into a breakneck adventure." -- Wall Street Journal "Charyn has a gift for the unexpected, both linguistically and narratively. . . . The result is at once surprising and very entertaining." -- BookPage "For half a century, [Charyn] has been an unpredictable, unclassifiable, and above all exactingly smart author." -- Open Letters Review "Charyn makes artful use of historical fact and fiction''s panache." -- Kirkus Reviews "Charyn, as he has proven time and time again, is a master of the written word." -- Jewish Journal "Wherever he takes us, Charyn''s mind is always agile, and his prose is stunningly electric." -- Jewish Book Council, Advance Praise for Sergeant Salinger "[A] literary tour de force. . . . Charyn vividly portrays [J.D. Salinger's] journey from slick short story writer to suffering artist. The winning result humanizes a legend." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Select Praise for Jerome Charyn "Jerome Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible." -- Tom Bissell "Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature." -- Michael Chabon "Charyn is a one off: no other living American writer crafts novels with his vibrancy of historical imagination." -- William Giraldi "[Charyn's] sentences are pure vernacular music, his voice unmistakable." -- Jonathan Lethem "One of our most rewarding novelists." -- Larry McMurtry "Among Charyn's writerly gifts is a dazzling energya highly inflected rapid-fire prose that pulls us along like a pony cart over rough terrain." -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books "Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons." -- New Yorker "One of our most intriguing fiction writers." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "Absolutely unique among American writers." -- Los Angeles Times "A contemporary American Balzac." -- Newsday "Charyn's blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words." -- Washington Post "[Charyn] writes with the sort of whirlwind energy that turns the seediest story into a breakneck adventure." -- Wall Street Journal "Charyn has a gift for the unexpected, both linguistically and narratively. . . . The result is at once surprising and very entertaining." -- BookPage "For half a century, [Charyn] has been an unpredictable, unclassifiable, and above all exactingly smart author." -- Open Letters Review "Charyn makes artful use of historical fact and fiction's panache." -- Kirkus Reviews "Wherever he takes us, Charyn's mind is always agile, and his prose is stunningly electric." -- Jewish Book Council, Praise for Sergeant Salinger "Two intriguing suggestions are buried deeply in the story that Charyn tells so compellingly in Sergeant Salinger . One is that Salinger could have but chose not to write one of the great war novels of the twentieth century. (In a real sense, Charyn has done it for him.) The other is that Salinger''s experience of war drove him to explore only the inner lives of the characters he invented and to hide his own inner life from the generations of readers who revere him." -- Jewish Journal "Wonderfully recreates the war years of J. D. Salinger. . . . If you are looking for a more nuanced war novel, a story of World War II and what it did to the young men forced to fight it, this is the book for you." -- Michigan Daily "[A] literary tour de force. . . . Charyn vividly portrays [J.D. Salinger''s] journey from slick short story writer to suffering artist. The winning result humanizes a legend." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This supremely engaging novel leaves us with a new, sometimes heart-rending understanding of [J.D. Salinger] and the times in which he came of age." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Charyn deftly leaves the reader wondering whether Holden Caulfield''s teenage angst was really Salinger''s personification of post-traumatic stress disorder. . . . Engrossing." -- Library Journal "Nuanced and acutely perceptive. . . . Charyn offers an astute psychological portrait of an elusive yet vastly compelling subject." -- Booklist "Charyn peers into the traumas that formed the lifelong recluse and his enigmatic stories. . . . The whole story makes for an engaging and informative rendering of an important American author." -- Historical Novels Review "An in depth look at one of our most celebrated of writers. . . . Charyn answers the question of how it was meant to be for Salinger to write that novel that unwittingly summoned the world." -- Comics Grinder Select Praise for Jerome Charyn "Jerome Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible." -- Tom Bissell "Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature." -- Michael Chabon "Charyn is a one off: no other living American writer crafts novels with his vibrancy of historical imagination." -- William Giraldi "[Charyn''s] sentences are pure vernacular music, his voice unmistakable." -- Jonathan Lethem "One of our most rewarding novelists." -- Larry McMurtry "Among Charyn''s writerly gifts is a dazzling energya highly inflected rapid-fire prose that pulls us along like a pony cart over rough terrain." -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books "Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons." -- New Yorker "One of our most intriguing fiction writers." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "Absolutely unique among American writers." -- Los Angeles Times "A contemporary American Balzac." -- Newsday "Charyn''s blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words." -- Washington Post "[Charyn] writes with the sort of whirlwind energy that turns the seediest story into a breakneck adventure." -- Wall Street Journal "Charyn has a gift for the unexpected, both linguistically and narratively. . . . The result is at once surprising and very entertaining." -- BookPage "For half a century, [Charyn] has been an unpredictable, unclassifiable, and above all exactingly smart author." -- Open Letters Review "Charyn makes artful use of historical fact and fiction''s panache." -- Kirkus Reviews "Charyn, as he has proven time and time again, is a master of the written word." -- Jewish Journal "Wherever he takes us, Charyn''s mind is always agile, and his prose is stunningly electric." -- Jewish Book Council, Praise for Sergeant Salinger "Two intriguing suggestions are buried deeply in the story that Charyn tells so compellingly in Sergeant Salinger . One is that Salinger could have but chose not to write one of the great war novels of the twentieth century. (In a real sense, Charyn has done it for him.) The other is that Salinger's experience of war drove him to explore only the inner lives of the characters he invented and to hide his own inner life from the generations of readers who revere him." -- Jewish Journal "[A] literary tour de force. . . . Charyn vividly portrays [J.D. Salinger's] journey from slick short story writer to suffering artist. The winning result humanizes a legend." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This supremely engaging novel leaves us with a new, sometimes heart-rending understanding of [J.D. Salinger] and the times in which he came of age." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Charyn deftly leaves the reader wondering whether Holden Caulfield's teenage angst was really Salinger's personification of post-traumatic stress disorder. . . . Engrossing." -- Library Journal "Nuanced and acutely perceptive. . . . Charyn offers an astute psychological portrait of an elusive yet vastly compelling subject." -- Booklist Select Praise for Jerome Charyn "Jerome Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible." -- Tom Bissell "Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature." -- Michael Chabon "Charyn is a one off: no other living American writer crafts novels with his vibrancy of historical imagination." -- William Giraldi "[Charyn's] sentences are pure vernacular music, his voice unmistakable." -- Jonathan Lethem "One of our most rewarding novelists." -- Larry McMurtry "Among Charyn's writerly gifts is a dazzling energya highly inflected rapid-fire prose that pulls us along like a pony cart over rough terrain." -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books "Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons." -- New Yorker "One of our most intriguing fiction writers." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "Absolutely unique among American writers." -- Los Angeles Times "A contemporary American Balzac." -- Newsday "Charyn's blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words." -- Washington Post "[Charyn] writes with the sort of whirlwind energy that turns the seediest story into a breakneck adventure." -- Wall Street Journal "Charyn has a gift for the unexpected, both linguistically and narratively. . . . The result is at once surprising and very entertaining." -- BookPage "For half a century, [Charyn] has been an unpredictable, unclassifiable, and above all exactingly smart author." -- Open Letters Review "Charyn makes artful use of historical fact and fiction's panache." -- Kirkus Reviews "Charyn, as he has proven time and time again, is a master of the written word." -- Jewish Journal "Wherever he takes us, Charyn's mind is always agile, and his prose is stunningly electric." -- Jewish Book Council, Praise for Sergeant Salinger "[A] literary tour de force. . . . Charyn vividly portrays [J.D. Salinger's] journey from slick short story writer to suffering artist. The winning result humanizes a legend." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This supremely engaging novel leaves us with a new, sometimes heart-rending understanding of [J.D. Salinger] and the times in which he came of age." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Nuanced and acutely perceptive. . . . Charyn offers an astute psychological portrait of an elusive yet vastly compelling subject." -- Booklist Select Praise for Jerome Charyn "Jerome Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible." -- Tom Bissell "Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature." -- Michael Chabon "Charyn is a one off: no other living American writer crafts novels with his vibrancy of historical imagination." -- William Giraldi "[Charyn's] sentences are pure vernacular music, his voice unmistakable." -- Jonathan Lethem "One of our most rewarding novelists." -- Larry McMurtry "Among Charyn's writerly gifts is a dazzling energya highly inflected rapid-fire prose that pulls us along like a pony cart over rough terrain." -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books "Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons." -- New Yorker "One of our most intriguing fiction writers." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "Absolutely unique among American writers." -- Los Angeles Times "A contemporary American Balzac." -- Newsday "Charyn's blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words." -- Washington Post "[Charyn] writes with the sort of whirlwind energy that turns the seediest story into a breakneck adventure." -- Wall Street Journal "Charyn has a gift for the unexpected, both linguistically and narratively. . . . The result is at once surprising and very entertaining." -- BookPage "For half a century, [Charyn] has been an unpredictable, unclassifiable, and above all exactingly smart author." -- Open Letters Review "Charyn makes artful use of historical fact and fiction's panache." -- Kirkus Reviews "Wherever he takes us, Charyn's mind is always agile, and his prose is stunningly electric." -- Jewish Book Council
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Synopsis
"J.D. Salinger, the mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a litigious misanthrope who disowned his daughter. Jerome Charyn's Sergeant Salinger is a young WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war-from the landing on D-Day to the relentless hand-to-hand combat in the hedgerows of Normandy, to the Battle of the Bulge, and finally to the first Allied entry into a Bavarian death camp, where corpses were piled like cordwood. After the war, interned in a Nuremberg psychiatric clinic, Salinger was bewitched by a suspected Nazi informant. They married, but not long after he brought her home to New York, the marriage collapsed. Maladjusted to civilian life, he lived like a "spook," with invisible stripes on his shoulder and the ghosts of the murdered inside his head. Grounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, this is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind a novel that has marked generations"--, A shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combat J.D. Salinger, mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye , is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn's Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war--from the landing on D-Day to the relentless hand-to-hand combat in the hedgerows of Normandy, to the Battle of the Bulge, and finally to the first Allied entry into a Bavarian death camp, where corpses were piled like cordwood. After the war, interned in a Nuremberg psychiatric clinic, Salinger became enchanted with a suspected Nazi informant. They married, but not long after he brought her home to New York, the marriage collapsed. Maladjusted to civilian life, he lived like a "spook," with invisible stripes on his shoulder, the ghosts of the murdered inside his head, and stories to tell. Grounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, Sergeant Salinger is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind a novel that has marked generations., A shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combat Salinger, mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye , is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn's Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war-from the landing on D-Day to the relentless hand-to-hand combat in the hedgerows of Normandy, to the Battle of the Bulge, and finally to the first Allied entry into a Bavarian death camp, where corpses were piled like cordwood. After the war, interned in a Nuremberg psychiatric clinic, Salinger became enchanted with a suspected Nazi informant. They married, but not long after he brought her home to New York, the marriage collapsed. Maladjusted to civilian life, he lived like a 'spook,' with invisible stripes on his shoulder, the ghosts of the murdered inside his head, and stories to tell. Grounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, Sergeant Salinger is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind a novel that has marked generations. 'Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons.' -- New Yorker
LC Classification Number
PS3553.H33S47 2021
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- 1***1 (1049)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseFast shipping. Thanks.
- 6***6 (53)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThese nails are the best I have ever used, Packed excedptionally well, delivered on time. instruction included, quite a value for all your getting, the condition of the nails are numbered right on the pallett, exceptional the way they are presented. They come in a special box with a snap on the front. All in all a very good buy. Highly recommend them,
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