My Salinger year

by Rakoff, Joanna

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Full title :My Salinger year / Joanna Rakoff.

Summary

Poignant, keenly observed, and irresistible: a memoir about literary New York in the late '90s, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself swept into one of the last great stories and entangled with one of the last great figures of the century. At 23, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent of J.D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-paneled agency, where Dictaphones and typewriters still prevail and old-time agents doze at their desks in the late afternoon, and at night she goes home to the tiny, threadbare Williamsburg apartment she shares with her socialist boyfriend. Precariously balanced between glamour and poverty, surrounded by titanic personalities, and struggling to trust her own artistic talent, Joanna is tasked with responding to Salinger's voluminous fan mail. But as she reads the deeply candid letters from his fans, she finds herself abandoning the agency's form letter and writing her own responses. Over the course of the year, she finds her own voice by acting as Salinger's, on her own dangerous and wonderful terms. Joanna Rakoff paints a vibrant portrait of a bright, hungry young woman moving through a heady and much-longed for world, trying to square romantic aspirations with burgeoning self-awareness, the idea of a life with life itself. My Salinger Year is a graceful, deeply moving literary fairytale and the coming-of-age story of a talented young writer.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Knopf
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

Notes

Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed January 23, 2014).

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780307958013, 0307958019, 9781408833964, 1408833964, 1306956722, 9781306956727
oclc:ocn869380745
LC Classification:PS3619.M592455
Dewey Decimal:070.52092

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Authors, American Authors, American -- Biography. -- 21st… Autobiographies Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal M… Editors, Journalists, Publishers History LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journali… Literature publishing Literature publishing -- History -- 21s… Literature publishing.no Memoirs Personal Memoirs Rakoff, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Joanna United States Women