ISBN:

• 9780061852503
• 0061852503

Description: xxix, 287 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:

• 1st Harper Perennial edition published 2009.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• The invisible man: a biographical collage
• The good American / Arthur Mizener, David L. Stevenson
• Is "cute" the word? / Alfred Kazin, John Updike, Leslie Fiedler
• Magician, clubman or guru / Seymour Krim, David Leitch, Joan Didion, Isa Kapp, George Steiner
• A slight case of incest / Maxwell Geismar, Frederick L. Gwynn, Joseph L. Blotner
• The cures for banana fever / William Wiegand
• Sensitive outsider vs. vulgarian / Ihab Hassan
• Between miracle and suicide / Josephine Jacobsen, Donald Barr, Dan Wakefield, Granville Hicks
• Holden and Huck: a quest / Arthur Heiserman, James E. Miller, Jr., Edgar Branch
• Against the cult of the child / Leslie Fiedler
• The phoenix / Martin Green, Christopher Parker
• Postscripts: Appendix A: The early stories / Gwynn and Blotner
• Appendix B: The language of the catcher in the rye / Donald P. Costello.

Control Number: 700052

Subjects: Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010.

Other Authors: Grunwald, Henry A. (Henry Anatole)