Before J.D. Salinger became famous for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye and infamous as a literary recluse, he was a soldier in World War II. Eberhard Alsen, through meticulous archival research and careful analysis of the literary record, corrects many mistaken assumptions about the young writer's war years and their repercussions.
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Before J.D. Salinger became famous for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye and infamous as a literary recluse, he was a soldier in World War II. Eberhard Alsen, through meticulous archival research and careful analysis of the literary record, corrects many mistaken assumptions about the young writer's war years and their repercussions.
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Fine in fine jacket. Illustrated. x + 154 pages, thin 8vo, brown cloth, d.w. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, (2018). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.