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For Esmé - with Love and Squalor
  • Published: 13 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241988817
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

For Esmé - with Love and Squalor

And Other Stories

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Hardback
19 Nov 2018
EBook
13 Aug 2019
Paperback
23 May 2019
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A collection of nine exceptional short stories from the author of The Catcher in the Rye

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 from home 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 J. D. 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 is a gem to be passed down for many generations to come.
  • Published: 13 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241988817
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192
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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.
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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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