Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. Already a member? Sign in.
Better Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
If You Really Want to Hear About It: Writers on J.D. Salinger and His Work by Catherine Crawford  (6)
|
Dream Catcher: A Memoir by Margaret A. Salinger  (62)
|
With Love and Squalor: 14 Writers Respond to the Work of J.D. Salinger by Kip Kotzen  (5)
|
New Essays on The Catcher in the Rye (The American Novel) by Jack Salzman (5)
$19.99
|
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger (156)
$11.19
|
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
"I'm only writing to you because my analyst insisted," begins one of the missives in Letters to J.D. Salinger. These 70-some notes to the legendary recluse edited by Chris Kubica, who runs the Web site jdsalinger.com, and Will Hochman, a Southern Connecticut State University English professor come from prominent writers like Tom Robbins, Nicholas Delbanco, David Shields, as well as from teachers, high school students and other readers. They vary in tone from starry-eyed and humorous to hostile. "I think of people like Holden," writes one teenager, "who have loads of money to spend on fancy Ivy League schools and instead flunk out, and it makes me want to spit."
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
It's the Letters to designation that signals a new departure in literary criticism here. Editors Kubica and Hochman have compiled an entirely one-sided correspondence with a celebrated recluse famously determined to communicate with practically no one. Their project began with an open call to editors, writers, critics, academics--to anyone, in fact, who wished to visit their Web site--asking them to address letters to Salinger. The idea was not that they would actually get through to the Master but that their letters might see the light of day via publication in this book. And one senses throughout the volume the wistful hope that Salinger will eventually see this book and, in the depths of his seclusion, somehow respond. In its own odd way, it works--the contributions range from pretentious, academic minitreatises to truly thoughtful notes and queries to simple, heartfelt sentiments and complaints from legions of Holden Caulfield fans. Trygve Thoreson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
"I'm only writing to you because my analyst insisted," begins one of the missives in Letters to J.D. Salinger. These 70-some notes to the legendary recluse edited by Chris Kubica, who runs the Web site jdsalinger.com, and Will Hochman, a Southern Connecticut State University English professor come from prominent writers like Tom Robbins, Nicholas Delbanco, David Shields, as well as from teachers, high school students and other readers. They vary in tone from starry-eyed and humorous to hostile. "I think of people like Holden," writes one teenager, "who have loads of money to spend on fancy Ivy League schools and instead flunk out, and it makes me want to spit."
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
It's the Letters to designation that signals a new departure in literary criticism here. Editors Kubica and Hochman have compiled an entirely one-sided correspondence with a celebrated recluse famously determined to communicate with practically no one. Their project began with an open call to editors, writers, critics, academics--to anyone, in fact, who wished to visit their Web site--asking them to address letters to Salinger. The idea was not that they would actually get through to the Master but that their letters might see the light of day via publication in this book. And one senses throughout the volume the wistful hope that Salinger will eventually see this book and, in the depths of his seclusion, somehow respond. In its own odd way, it works--the contributions range from pretentious, academic minitreatises to truly thoughtful notes and queries to simple, heartfelt sentiments and complaints from legions of Holden Caulfield fans. Trygve Thoreson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or |
