Short Stories by J. D. Salinger
Hapworth 16, 1924, the Laughing Man, the Inverted Forest, a Perfect Day for Bananafish, a Boy in France, Teddy
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2010
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hapworth 16, 1924, the Laughing Man, the Inverted Forest, a Perfect Day for Bananafish, a Boy in France, Teddy, Just Before the War With the Eskimos, for Esme - With Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, Down at the Dinghy, Elaine, Slight Rebellion Off Madison, Go See Eddie, de Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, I'm Crazy, Last Day of the Last Furlough, a Young Girl in 1941 With No Waist at All, Blue Melody, the Varioni Brothers, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise, the Ocean Full of Bowling Balls, the Hang of It, the Young Folks, the Stranger, Both Parties Concerned, the Long Debut of Lois Taggett, Soft-Boiled Sergeant, the Heart of a Broken Story, Once a Week Won't Kill You, Personal Notes of an Infantryman. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: "The Laughing Man" is a short story written by J. D. Salinger and originally published in The New Yorker magazine on March 19, 1949. It largely takes the structure of a story within a story and is thematically occupied with the relationship between narrative and narrator, and the end of youth. The story also appears in Salinger's short story collection Nine Stories. The short story is told from the point of view of an unnamed narrator recounting his experience as a nine-year-old living in New York City in 1928, but largely takes the structure of a story within a story. As a member of a Boy Scout-like troop called the Comanche Club, the narrator comes into contact with a Scout leader called "The Chief," a young law student at New York University (NYU) acting as caretaker in his spare time. The Chief is described as very handsome, and is widely respected by his troop for his athletic strength and storytelling ability. Every day, after the troop has...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=241302
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