For Esme - with Love and Squalor

A collection of nine exceptional stories from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the RyeAn American soldier has a strange encounter with an orphaned English teenager the night before he leaves for war. A four-year-old boy runs away in a dinghy; a missionary''s child is kidnapped by Chinese bandits. A honeymoon in Florida goes awry with tragic consequences. Including the first stories to feature Salinger''s beloved Glass family characters, this brilliantly varied collection offers a vivid introduction to the work of one of the most admired and widely read American novelists of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane and frequently affecting, For Esme - with Love and Squalor sits alongside Salinger''s very best work - a gem that will be passed down for many generations to come.>

Product details

• Authors: J D Salinger, J.D. Salinger, Jerome D Salinger, Jerome D. Salinger, J. D. Salinger
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 04.03.2010
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780141049250
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104925-0
• Pages: 192
• Dimensions (packing): 11.3 x 18.2 x 1 cm
• Subjects: FICTION / Literary; Short Stories; Anthologies: general; Fiction: general and literary