The Salinger Contract

Author : Adam Langer
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453297902

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The Salinger Contract by Adam Langer Pdf

An enthralling literary mystery that connects some of the world’s most famous authors—from Norman Mailer and Truman Capote to B. Traven and J. D. Salinger—to a sinister collector in Chicago Adam Langer, the narrator of this deft and wide-ranging novel by the author of the same name, tells the intertwining tales of two writers navigating a plot neither one of them could have ever imagined. There may be no other escape than to write their way out of it. Adam is a writer and stay-at-home dad in Bloomington, Indiana, drawn into an uneasy friendship with the charismatic and bestselling thriller author Conner Joyce. Conner is having trouble writing his next book, and when a menacing stranger approaches him with an odd—and lucrative—proposal, events quickly begin to spiral out of control. A novel of literary crimes and misdemeanors, The Salinger Contract will delight anyone who loves a fast-paced story told with humor, wit, and intrigue.

Author : Kenneth Slawenski
Publisher : Random House
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679604792

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J. D. Salinger by Kenneth Slawenski Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The inspiration for the major motion picture Rebel in the Rye One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, the author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now he is the subject of this definitive biography, which is filled with new information and revelations garnered from countless interviews, letters, and public records. Kenneth Slawenski explores Salinger’s privileged youth, long obscured by misrepresentation and rumor, revealing the brilliant, sarcastic, vulnerable son of a disapproving father and doting mother. Here too are accounts of Salinger’s first broken heart—after Eugene O’Neill’s daughter, Oona, left him—and the devastating World War II service that haunted him forever. J. D. Salinger features this author’s dramatic encounters with luminaries from Ernest Hemingway to Elia Kazan, his office intrigues with famous New Yorker editors and writers, and the stunning triumph of The Catcher in the Rye, which would both make him world-famous and hasten his retreat into the hills of New Hampshire. J. D. Salinger is this unique author’s unforgettable story in full—one that no lover of literature can afford to miss. Praise for J. D. Salinger: A Life “Startling . . . insightful . . . [a] terrific literary biography.”—USA Today “It is unlikely that any author will do a better job than Mr. Slawenski capturing the glory of Salinger’s life.”—The Wall Street Journal “Slawenski fills in a great deal and connects the dots assiduously; it’s unlikely that any future writer will uncover much more about Salinger than he has done.”—Boston Sunday Globe “Offers perhaps the best chance we have to get behind the myth and find the man.”—Newsday “[Slawenski has] greatly fleshed out and pinned down an elusive story with precision and grace.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Earnest, sympathetic and perceptive . . . [Slawenski] does an evocative job of tracing the evolution of Salinger’s work and thinking.”—The New York Times

Author : David Shields,Shane Salerno
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476744858

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Salinger by David Shields,Shane Salerno Pdf

"The official book of the acclaimed documentary film"--Jacket.

Author : Joyce Maynard
Publisher : Picador
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429977555

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At Home in the World by Joyce Maynard Pdf

New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day With a New Preface When it was first published in 1998, At Home in the World set off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard's memoir broke a silence concerning her relationship—at age eighteen—with J.D. Salinger, the famously reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, then age fifty-three, who had read a story she wrote for The New York Times in her freshman year of college and sent her a letter that changed her life. Reviewers called her book "shameless" and "powerful" and its author was simultaneously reviled and cheered. With what some have viewed as shocking honesty, Maynard explores her coming of age in an alcoholic family, her mother's dream to mold her into a writer, her self-imposed exile from the world of her peers when she left Yale to live with Salinger, and her struggle to reclaim her sense of self in the crushing aftermath of his dismissal of her not long after her nineteenth birthday. A quarter of a century later—having become a writer, survived the end of her marriage and the deaths of her parents, and with an eighteen-year-old daughter of her own—Maynard pays a visit to the man who broke her heart. The story she tells—of the girl she was and the woman she became—is at once devastating, inspiring, and triumphant.

Author : Thomas Beller
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544261990

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J.D. Salinger by Thomas Beller Pdf

A spirited, deeply personal inquiry into the near-mythic life and canonical work of J. D. Salinger by a writer known for his sensitivity to the Manhattan culture that was Salinger's great theme.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2124 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104268455

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate Pdf

Author : Adam Langer
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588369574

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The Thieves of Manhattan by Adam Langer Pdf

The famously false memoirs of James Frey may be yesterday’s news, but as this funny riff reminds us, literary fakes are as old as literature itself. Ian Minot is an aspiring writer who labors over short stories that seem destined to remain unread. His beautiful Romanian girlfriend, Anya Petrescu, finds success more easily—and leaves Ian for Blade Markham, a bloviating ex-gangbanger whose “so-called memoir” is a best-seller. When Ian is approached by ex-editor Jed Roth, who wants Ian to publish Jed’s pulpy tale of book theft and murder as a memoir, then renounce it, it’s a chance for both of them to get revenge: Jed on his former employer, and Ian on the world. Although Langer may be too cute for some (he employs made-up slang in which a penis is a portnoy), he does an engaging job with the hall-of-mirrors plot. And if readers can predict that the book they’re reading is the one that Ian ends up writing, they’ll never guess the ending. Just when you want a surprising twist, Langer delivers several.

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1612 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : UOM:39015073776786

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Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board by United States. National Labor Relations Board Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015081322680

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Unfair labor practices
ISBN : IND:30000088104736

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Investigation of Improper Activities in the Labor Or Management Field by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:HL05GO

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Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adam Langer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440628290

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Crossing California by Adam Langer Pdf

Crossing California is a cinematic and unforgettable look at the end of an era, the turning point when the idealism of the sixties gave way to the pragmatism of the eighties. California Avenue, in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood, separates the upper-middle-class Jewish families on the west from the mostly middle-class Jewish households east of the divide. This funny and heartbreaking novel, which spans the Iran hostage crisis through the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as president, tells the story of three families and their teenage children living on either side of California. It follows their loves, heartaches, friendships, and losses during a memorable and defining moment of American history.

Author : Joanna Rakoff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307958013

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My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff Pdf

A keenly observed and irresistibly funny memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing. Now a major motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. Precariously balanced between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office—where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze after three-martini lunches—and then goes home to her threadbare Brooklyn apartment and her socialist boyfriend. Rakoff is tasked with processing Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency’s form response and impulsively begins writing back. The results are both humorous and moving, as Rakoff, while acting as the great writer’s voice, begins to discover her own.

Author : Margaret A. Salinger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439122020

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Dream Catcher by Margaret A. Salinger Pdf

In her highly anticipated memoir, Margaret A. Salinger writes about life with her famously reclusive father, J.D. Salinger—offering a rare look into the man and the myth, what it is like to be his daughter, and the effect of such a charismatic figure on the girls and women closest to him. With generosity and insight, Ms. Salinger has written a book that is eloquent, spellbinding, and wise, yet at the same time retains the intimacy of a novel. Her story chronicles an almost cultlike environment of extreme isolation and early neglect interwoven with times of laughter, joy, and dazzling beauty. Compassionately exploring the complex dynamics of family relationships, her story is one that seeks to come to terms with the dark parts of her life that, quite literally, nearly killed her, and to pass on a life-affirming heritage to her own child. The story of being a Salinger is unique; the story of being a daughter is universal. This book appeals to anyone, J.D. Salinger fan or no, who has ever had to struggle to sort out who she really is from whom her parents dreamed she might be.

Author : Angie Whaley LeClercq
Publisher : Association of Research Libr
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Copyright
ISBN : UOM:39015029868364

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Unpublished Materials by Angie Whaley LeClercq Pdf