My Salinger Year by Rakoff, Joanna [Paperback]

Description: A keenly observed and irresistibly funny memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing. Now a major motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret QualleyAfter leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. Precariously balanced between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office-where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze after three-martini lunches-and then goes home to her threadbare Brooklyn apartment and her socialist boyfriend. Rakoff is tasked with processing Salinger's voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency's form response and impulsively begins writing back. The results are both humorous and moving, as Rakoff, while acting as the great writer's voice, begins to discover her own.

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EAN: 9780307947987

UPC: 9780307947987

ISBN: 9780307947987

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Book Title: My Salinger Year : a Memoir

Number of Pages: 272 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication Year: 2015

Item Height: 0.6 in

Topic: Women, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Publishing, Personal Memoirs, Literary, American / General

Genre: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography

Item Weight: 6.8 Oz

Item Length: 8 in

Author: Joanna Rakoff

Item Width: 5.2 in

Format: Trade Paperback