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Nine Stories

By J.D. Salinger

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| Paperback | 9780316767729

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Since the publication of The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, the works of J.D. Salinger have been acclaimed for their humor, intensity, and their lack of phoniness. A collection of short fiction, Nine Stories contains works with those qualities that make Salinger such a well-loved author.

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Completed a good parts of the nine mutually exclusive stories.
I particularly dig "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" -- feels as depressed that as if I can blow myself up on any given day off. "The Laughing Man" is a singular story-in-story plot -- if I could have a girlfriend who can strike w ... (continue)

Completed a good parts of the nine mutually exclusive stories.
I particularly dig "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" -- feels as depressed that as if I can blow myself up on any given day off. "The Laughing Man" is a singular story-in-story plot -- if I could have a girlfriend who can strike well in the diamond and I could drive a school bus in N.Y.C. or could depend on some trusty sidekick traveled all over to bring the elixir for my dying self, I would be a laughing man.

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Search Serg said on May 10, 2008 | Add your feedback

Masterpiece. Painful. Sharp. True. As good as it gets.

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leo said on Jan 7, 2012 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

a perfect day for bananafish/ for esmé, with love and squalor/ uncle wiggily in connecticut/ de daumier- smith's blue period
racconti perfetti.

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fiamma said on Oct 25, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback