J. D. Salinger

"Perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation" (New York Times), J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey collects two works of fiction about the Glass family originally published in The New Yorker. "Everything everybody does is so--I don't know--not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and--sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way." A novel in two halves, Franny and Zooey brilliantly captures the emotional strains and traumas of entering adulthood. It is a gleaming example of the wit, precision, and poignancy that have made J. D. Salinger one of America's most beloved writers.

A funny, poignant snapshot of young adulthood from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the RyeFranny Glass and Lane Coutell are the perfect campus couple: beautiful, intelligent, their whole lives ahead of them. But one weekend when Franny is visiting, amid the excitement of the big Yale game, something goes wrong and tensions begin to surface. Are they really such a perfect match after all? Franny's older brother is Zooey. They come from a sophisticated yet highly eccentric family: all seven Glass siblings are former child stars, all strange and enchanting and damaged in their own way. And when Franny's anxiety spirals into a full-blown breakdown, Zooey is the only one who might be able to save her. A novel in two intertwining stories, Franny and Zooey brilliantly captures the emotional strains and traumas of entering adulthood. It is a gleaming example of the wit, precision and poignancy that have made J. D. Salinger one of the most beloved American novelists of the twentieth century.

A sharp and poignant snapshot of the crises of youth - from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye'Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.'First published in the New Yorker as two sequential stories, 'Franny' and 'Zooey' offer a dual portrait of the two youngest members of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family.'Salinger's masterpiece' Guardian

"Perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation" (New York Times), J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey collects two works of fiction about the Glass family originally published in The New Yorker." Everything everybody does is so--I don't know--not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and--sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way." A novel in two halves, Franny and Zooey brilliantly captures the emotional strains and traumas of entering adulthood. It is a gleaming example of the wit, precision, and poignancy that have made J. D. Salinger one of America's most beloved writers.

Two children of the Glass family appear in separate stories laid in twentieth-century New York

"Perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation" (New York Times), J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey collects two works of fiction about the Glass family originally published in The New Yorker." Everything everybody does is so--I don't know--not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and--sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way." A novel in two halves, Franny and Zooey brilliantly captures the emotional strains and traumas of entering adulthood. It is a gleaming example of the wit, precision, and poignancy that have made J. D. Salinger one of America's most beloved writers.

New York, 1950’erne. Engang brillerede alle syv børn i familien Glass i radioen med deres vid og fremmelighed, men den tid er forbi. Familiens to yngste, Franny og Zooey, står på tærsklen til voksenlivet i denne todelte roman, der foregår næsten udelukkende over et enkelt restaurantbesøg i en collegeby og nogle timer af en ualmindelig hverdag i en lejlighed på Manhattan. Franny & Zooey demonstrerer på fineste vis Salingers evne til at indfange den særlige skrøbelighed, man oplever som ungt menneske. Bogen er af The Guardian blevet kaldt »Salingers mesterværk« og af The New York Times omtalt som »måske den bedste bog af den fremmeste sprogkunstner i sin generation«. J. D. Salinger (1919-2010) fik kultstatus med romanen 'The Catcher in the Rye' og brugte meget af sit efterfølgende liv på at afværge pressens og offentlighedens stormende interesse i ham. Han var et ufrivilligt idol for en hel generation af unge amerikanere, der dyrkede ham for portrættet af den oprørske teenager Holden Caulfield, men selv holdt Salinger mest af sine historier om Glass-familien: 'Nine Stories', 'Franny and Zooey', 'Raise High the Roof Beam' og 'Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction'.

Räddaren i nöden på kroatiska. Holden Caufield är 16 år och tycker livet är för jävligt, men ibland också så vackert att man kan dö. Han har just blivit relegerad från skolan och ska möta sina föräldrar i New York. Istället dyker han in i Manhattans storstadsdjungel för att under några hektiska dygn leva som en vuxen. Han hinner gå på nattklubbar, möta före detta flickvänner, misslyckas kapitalt med ett hotelläventyr med en call girl innan familjen obevekligt åter sluter sig kring honom. J. D. Salinger har med Räddaren i nöden gett en tidlös skildring av ungdomens revolt mot den förstelnade vuxenvärlden. En fräck, rolig och desperat insiktsfull roman som blivit kultbok sen den kom ut i början av 50-talet

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The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books." If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.

The last book-length work of fiction by J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime collects two novellas about "one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully realized families in all fiction" (New York Times). These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour Glass--the eldest son of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family--as recalled by his closest brother, Buddy. "He was a great many things to a great many people while he lived, and virtually all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat outsized family. Surely he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo, and our one full poet..."

In honour of the centennial of the birth of J. D. Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first Salinger editions published in the 1950s and 1960s.'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.'The first of J. D. Salinger's four books to be published, The Catcher in the Rye is one of the most widely read and beloved of all contemporary American novels.'The handbook of the adolescent heart' The New Yorker

In honour of the centennial of the birth of J. D. Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first Salinger editions published in the 1950s and 1960s. A collection of nine exceptional stories from one of the great American voices of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane and frequently affecting, For Esmé - with Love and Squalor sits alongside Salinger's very best work - a gem that will be passed down for many generations to come.'The most perfectly balanced collection of stories I know' Ann Patchett

The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.

From the moment J. D. Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, he was stalked by besotted fans, would-be biographers, and pushy journalists. In this collection of rare and revealing encounters with the elusive literary giant, Salinger discusses--sometimes willingly, sometimes grudgingly--what that onslaught was like, the autobiographical origins of his art, and his advice to writers. Including his final, surprising interview, and with an insightful introduction by New York Times journalist David Streitfeld, these enlightening, provocative, and even amusing conversations reveal a writer fiercely resistant to the spotlight but powerless to escape its glare.

Holden Caufield är 16 år och tycker livet är för jävligt, men ibland också så vackert att man kan dö. Han har just blivit relegerad från skolan och ska möta sina föräldrar i New York. Istället dyker han in i Manhattans storstadsdjungel för att under några hektiska dygn leva som en vuxen. Han hinner gå på nattklubbar, möta före detta flickvänner, misslyckas kapitalt med ett hotelläventyr med en call girl innan familjen obevekligt åter sluter sig kring honom. J. D. Salinger har med Räddaren i nöden gett en tidlös skildring av ungdomens revolt mot den förstelnade vuxenvärlden. En fräck, rolig och desperat insiktsfull roman som blivit kultbok sen den kom ut i början av 50-talet. (I en uppdaterad översättning av Klas Östergren.)

J D Salingers mästerverk Res takbjälken högt, timmermän och Seymour, en introduktion i nyöversättning av Andreas Vesterlund. en tillbakadragne författaren J D Salinger, mest känd för romanen The Catcher in the Rye (Räddaren i nöden) dog i januari 2010. Innan dess skrev Bakhåll kontrakt med honom för nyöversättningen av hans novellsamling Nine stories (Nio noveller) som vi publicerade i oktober 2010. Efter det har vi tecknat kontrakt med hans familj för att få ge ut hans två övriga böcker i nyöversättning Franny och Zooey och Res takbjälken högt, timmermän och Seymour, en introduktion (som kommer nu). Kontrakten liknar inga andra kontrakt i branschen. Salinger var som sagt tillbakadragen, och det är att uttrycka saken milt. Många nutida bokförlag kräver av författarna att de ska ut på formliga turné er när deras böcker kommer ut, medverka på mässor, tacka ja till allehanda intervjuer och mediafram­trädanden, säga javisst till allt som erbjuds som kan förbättra försäljningen, men med Salinger var det jämt precis tvärtom. Bakhåll fick en sträng lista över vilka anti­promotionsåtgärder som gäller för hans utgivningar. Vi har förbundit oss att inte berätta något om hans liv eller hans person. Vi får inte publicera någon bild på honom, varken på bokens omslag eller i vårt presentationsmaterial. Boken får inte ha förord eller efterord eller ens baksidespresentation. Författarnamnet på omslagets framsida måste skrivas med mindre bokstäver än bokens titel. Vi får inte utforma något presentationsmaterial för bokhandeln. Några bilder får överhuvudtaget inte förekomma, bokens omslag får t ex inte innehålla någon form av illustration eller dekor. Och så vidare, listan med anti-PR-krav är lång. För Bakhålls del är allt detta OK. Vi respekterar sådana krav, vi tolkar det som bevis på att Salinger var seriös och hade integritet, vi är för övrigt rätt tillbakadragna själva. Men en gissning är att många andra bokförlag skulle blivit upprörda om en författare kommit med sådana krav. De skulle nog hävda att sådana åtgärder är till direkt skada för försäljningen. Men varför har mr Salinger dessa stränga krav? undrade vi lite försynt. (Vi träffade honom aldrig, förhandlingarna gick via hans agent.) He wants nothing to interfere with the written word on the page, blev svaret. Inget ska få störa läsarens upplevelse av författarens text. En hållning värd all respekt, tycker vi. Detta är motsatsen till hype.