For Esme - with Love and Squalor: And Other Stories

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Product ID:	9780241950456
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	For Esme - with Love and Squalor
Subtitle:	And Other Stories
Authors:	Author: J. D. Salinger
Page Count:	192
Subjects:	Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Description:	Select Guide Rating Includes two of the author's critically acclaimed stories. This title contains a story that recounts the author's meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat. It also contains a story that features the Glass family, the loveable and idiosyncratic family. A collection of nine exceptional stories from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye ''This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I''m still around, but from here on in, for reasons I''m not at liberty to disclose, I''ve disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me.'' This collection of nine stories includes the first appearance of J. D. Salinger''s fictional Glass family, introducing Seymour Glass in the unforgettable ''A Perfect Day for Bananafish''. ''The most perfectly balanced collection of stories I know'' Ann Patchett
Imprint Name:	Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher Name:	Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2010-03-04

Weight	142 g
Dimensions	196 × 131 × 12 mm