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For Esmé - with Love and Squalor
  • Published: 19 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241985922
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $30.00

For Esmé - with Love and Squalor

And Other Stories

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19 Nov 2018
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13 Aug 2019
Paperback
23 May 2019
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In honour of the centennial of J. D. Salinger, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback

An American soldier has a strange encounter with an orphaned English teenager the night before he leaves for war. A four-year-old boy runs away in a dinghy; a missionary's child is kidnapped by Chinese bandits. A honeymoon in Florida goes awry with tragic consequences. Including the first stories to feature Salinger's beloved Glass family characters, this brilliantly varied collection offers a vivid introduction to the work of one of the most admired and widely read American novelists of the twentieth century.

Witty, urbane and frequently affecting, For Esmé - with Love and Squalor sits alongside Salinger's very best work - a gem that will be passed down for many generations to come.
  • Published: 19 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241985922
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $30.00
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About the author

J. D. Salinger

J.D. Salinger (b. 1919, New York, NY; d. 2010, Cornish, NH) was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His landmark novel The Catcher in the Rye is widely established as a defining novel of post-World War II America. He is also the author of the collections Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.  Though he continued to write up until his death in 2010, Salinger was fiercely reclusive and stopped publishing his work in 1965.
portrait photo of J. D. Salinger

Also by J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, Seymour - an Introduction
J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview
Franny and Zooey
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Praise for For Esmé - with Love and Squalor

His work meant a lot to me when I was a young person and his writing still sings.

Dave Eggers

It was a very pure voice he had. There was no one like him

Martin Amis

He was the poet of youthful alienation before youth really knew what that was

Sunday Times