Sergeant Salinger

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Synopsis
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.'In this literary tour de force... Charyn vividly portrays Sonny's journey from slick short story writer to suffering artist. The winning result humanizes a legend' - Publishers Weekly'Supremely engaging... A smoothly told, unexpectedly affecting foray into a lesser-known chapter of the literary giant's life' - Kirkus (Starred Review)'Nuanced and acutely perceptive... Charyn offers an astute psychological portrait of an elusive yet vastly compelling subject' - Booklist
Copyright:
2021

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780857304728
Related ISBNs:
9780857304711
Publisher:
Oldcastle Books, Limited
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Military, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
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Bookshare Staff
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