J. D. SALINGER: A LIFE RAISED HIGH
Book ID/图书代码： 04366511B44730
English Summary/英文概要： One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now comes a new biography that Peter Ackroyd in The Times of London calls “energetic and magnificently researched”—a book from which “a true picture of Salinger emerges.” Filled with new information and revelations—garnered from countless interviews, letters, and public records—J. D. Salinger presents an extraordinary life that spanned nearly the entire twentieth century.
Kenneth Slawenski explores Salinger’s privileged youth, long obscured by misrepresentation and rumor, revealing the brilliant, sarcastic, vulnerable son of a disapproving father and doting mother and his entrance into a social world where Gloria Vanderbilt dismissively referred to him as “a Jewish boy from New York.” Here too are accounts of Salinger’s first broken heart—Eugene O’Neill’s daughter, Oona, left him for the much older Charlie Chaplin—and the devastating World War II service (“a living hell”) of which he never spoke and which haunted him forever.
J. D. Salinger features all the dazzle of this author’s early writing successes, his dramatic encounters with luminaries from Ernest Hemingway to Laurence Olivier to Elia Kazan, his surprising office intrigues with famous New Yorker editors and writers, and the stunning triumph of The Catcher in the Rye, which would both make him world-famous and hasten his retreat into the hills of New Hampshire.
Whether it’s revealing the facts of his hasty, short-lived first marriage or his lifelong commitment to Eastern religion, which would dictate his attitudes toward sex, nutrition, solitude, and creativity, J. D. Salinger is this unique author’s unforgettable story in full—one that no lover of literature can afford to miss.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 美國傳奇作家J.D.沙林傑逝世週年後最新傳記！
以《麥田捕手》(Catcher in the Rye)一書聞名全球的美國傳奇作家J.D.沙林傑，於去年2010與世長辭後，一直留給世人很多關於他生平的疑問，而這絕大部份的起因在於成名後他選擇隱居，以及不再出版任何原創作品及接受媒體的訪問，讓人無從進一步了解他的內心世界。
作者Kenneth Slawenski是世上少有的「沙林傑達人」，他為沙林傑所經營的網站Dead Caulfields已有十年的歷史，一直被認為最可靠及權威性的資訊網站，許多詳盡及第一手的報導皆由此而出。而作者為了撰寫此部傳記更耗費七年的時間收集資料及考究。(Vincent)
Awards/获奖情况：電影版權已售！ Rights sold:
Pomona/UK (Original edition March 2010)
USA: Random House (January 2011)
Australia: University of Queensland Press (April 2010)
India: Westland/Tranquebar (2012)
Spain: Galaxia Gutenberg-Circulo de Lectores/Bertelsmann Group (January 2011)
Finland: Tammi/Bonnier Group (January 2011)
Bulgaria: Damyan Yakov (December 2010)
Turkey: Sel Publishing (2011)
Russia: Inostranka/Azbooka-Atticus Group (2011)
Lithuania: Gimtasis Zodis (2011)
Brazil: Texto Editores/Grupo LeYa (2011)
Korea: Minumsa Publishing Group (2012)
Japan: Shobunsha (2012)
Reviews:
“A first-rate book which is especially good on the links between Salinger’s fictions and their thematic developments . . . The passages on Salinger’s own war show that Slawenski can be an excellent storyteller himself, as he follows his subject through the thick of the horrors from D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge.”---The Daily Telegraph
“A welcome trove of information. Partly through exhaustive biographical research (especially into the early years) and partly through porings over almost unknown, uncollected stories, Slawenski enthrallingly illuminates what turned Salinger into an extraordinary literary phenomenon.”---The Sunday Times
“Slawenski sets about his task with such unblushing love and zest that his book is as irresistible to me as Salinger himself. . . . Slawenski has a priceless humility and a sympathy with his subject which is unstinting though not unqualified. As a result, I think you get from him a rather better idea of what Salinger was really like and why he lived his life as he did than you might from a biography which is licensed to describe itself as ‘scholarly’ or ‘authorised.’ . . . If you can imagine Salinger having a soft spot for any book about him . . . then Slawenski’s might be the one.”---The Spectator
“Diligent, respectful, resolute in its refusal to include gossip, always ready to acknowledge the point at which evidence ends and speculation begins.”---The Mail on Sunday
About the Author/作者介绍： Kenneth Slawenski is the creator of DeadCaulfields.com, a website founded in 2004 and recommended by The New York Times. He has been working on this biography for eight years. Slawenski was born in New Jersey, and has lived there all his life.
Format:HARDCOVER
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
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