My Salinger year

by Rakoff, Joanna

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Title Statements

Full title :My Salinger year / Joanna Rakoff.

Summary

"At twenty-three, 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 for J.D. Salinger. She spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-time agents doze at their desks after martini lunches. 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 instinct, Rakoff is tasked with answering Salinger's voluminous fan mail. But as she reads the candid, heart-wrenching letters from his readers around the world, she finds herself unable to type out the agency's decades-old form response. Instead, drawn inexorably into the emotional world of Salinger's devotees, she abandons the template and begins writing back. Over the course of the year, she finds her own voice by acting as Salinger's, on her own dangerous and liberating terms"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

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

Notes

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

The Physical Object

Description:249 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780307958006, 0307958000, 9780307947987, 030794798X, 9781408830178, 1408830175, 9781408855508, 140885550X
oclc:ocn854285692
LC Classification:PS3619.M592455
Dewey Decimal:818/.603

Part 1. Winter -- ch.1. Three days of snow -- ch.2. Office equipment -- part 2. Spring -- ch.1. The cover, the font, the binding -- ch.2. The obscure bookcase -- ch.3. The world wide web -- part 3. Summer -- ch.1. The pitch -- ch.2. Sentimental education -- ch.3. Three days of rain -- part 4. Fall -- part 5. Winter again.

Subjects

Authors, American Authors, American -- Biography. -- 21st… Autobiographies Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Jo… Écrivains américains -- Biographies. --… History Literature publishing Literature publishing -- History -- 21s… Literature publishing.no Littérature -- Édition -- 21e siècle. -… Narrative non-fiction Rakoff, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Joanna United States