I liked it very much indeed, more than anything for a long time. -- Samuel Beckett He wrote a perfect novel and it changed US culture forever Independent 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 Tough-tender... It charts the miseries and ecstasies of an adolescent rebel [in] acidly humorous deadpan satire TIME From the Back Cover J. D. Salinger was born in 1919 and died in January 2010. He grew up in New York City and wrote short stories from an early age, but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication in the New Yorker of 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'.
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