[bookshare-discuss] Re: Replacement submitted
- From: "Duane Iverson" <diverson@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:13:51 -0500
You read that book?
In One of Esther Friesner's Chicks in Chain Male series, Harry
Turtledove writes a hilarious sendup of Catcher in the Rye.
That story almost got me to forgive J.D. for writing the book so
I had to read it in the first place.
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From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:38 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Replacement submitted
> Replacement for
> The Catcher in the Rye
> by J.D. Salinger
>
> This is a revamped replacement copy for the one in the
collection.
>
> The validator should note, that there is a new long synopsis,
but the old
> short one works, and that this book SHOULD not be marked adult
as it is used
> in many high school literature courses, and since high
schoolers can't see
> adult marked books, well you see my logic.
>
> From the Book Jacket:
> Anyone who has read J. D. Salinger's New Yorker stories -
particularly A
> Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The
Laughing Man,
> and For Esme - With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by
the fact that
> his first novel is full of children.
>
> The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient
child of sixteen,
> a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through
circumstances that tend
> to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep
school in
> Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three
days.
>
> The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us
to make any
> final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing
we can say
> about Holden is that he was born in the world not just
strongly attracted to
> beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.
>
> There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult
voices,
> underground voices-but Holden's voice is the
> most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet
remaining
> marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated
cry of mixed
> pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and
poets of the
> higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself.
The pleasure
> he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there
for the reader
> who can handle it to keep.
>
> J. D. Salinger was born in New York City in 1919 and attended
Manhattan
> public schools, a military academy in Pennsylvania and three
colleges (no
> degrees). "A happy tourist's year in Europe," he writes, "when
I was
> eighteen and nineteen. In the Army from '42 to '46, most of
the time with
> the Fourth Division.
>
> "I've been writing since I was fifteen or so. My short stones
have appeared
> in a number of magazines over me last ten years, mostly - and
most happily -
> in The New Yorker. I worked on THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, on and
off, for ten
> years."
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
> juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
> Graduate Advisory Council
> www.guidedogs.com
>
> The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough
to
> stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
>
> -- Vance Havner
>
>
>
>
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