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Title | : | Franny and Zooey |
Author | : | J.D. Salinger |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 201 pages |
Published | : | January 30th 2001 by Back Bay Books (first published September 1961) |
Categories | : | Psychology. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Self Help. Love. Relationships. Sociology |
J.D. Salinger
Paperback | Pages: 201 pages Rating: 3.98 | 180095 Users | 6197 Reviews
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The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergraduate who is becoming disenchanted with the selfishness and inauthenticity she perceives all around her. The novella, Zooey, is named for Zooey Glass, the second-youngest member of the Glass family. As his younger sister, Franny, suffers a spiritual and existential breakdown in her parents' Manhattan living room -- leaving Bessie, her mother, deeply concerned -- Zooey comes to her aid, offering what he thinks is brotherly love, understanding, and words of sage advice. Salinger writes of these works: "FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill."
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Original Title: | Franny and Zooey |
ISBN: | 0316769029 (ISBN13: 9780316769020) |
Edition Language: | English |
Characters: | Franny Glass, Zooey Glass, Buddy Glass, Lane Coutell, Bessie Glass |
Literary Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1962) |
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Accidenti, disse, ce ne sono di cose belle al mondo. E quando dico belle intendo belle. Siamo degli idioti a svicolare sempre dalle cose. Sempre, sempre, sempre lì ad annotare tutti gli accidenti che capitano al nostro piccolo e schifoso io . Capitano, talvolta, degli incidenti straordinari. Tu sei lì con la guardia abbassata, a carezzare il tuo piccolo e schifoso io, e dun tratto le parole giuste ti cascano tra capo e collo come una secchiata dacqua fredda (o meglio, come un confortante tèI am the luckiest person in the world. The last few months have led me through an unbroken string of good books. I have had so much fun reading that I'm just in love with books right now. And isn't that the way it should be?In any case, Salinger's Franny and Zooey is the most recent in what I hope will be a continuing tradition of engaging, well-written stories. I have to admit I approached the work with some skepticism, having been wholly uninterested in Catcher in the Rye when it was forced
Did you know that Zooey Glass was voted People magazines Sexiest Man Alive in 1961?What? No, Im kidding. Why would you have ever believed that? Did you think the magazine even existed back in 61? Geez.But if it did, fictional or not, Zooey could almost certainly have been a contender. And back then he would have been eligible, too. Of course, you wouldnt get the Zooey Glass looks without a little of the Zooey Glass attitude, and are you sure youd want to have dealt with that? It was a little...I

I am a huge JD Salinger fan, and I'm one of those people who's read "Catcher in the Rye" like 200 times, several times a year since I was about twelve. I buy into every cliche said about it: it changed my life, it made me want to write, it validated my own teen angst, Salinger captures teen-speak amazingly well, Holden Caulfield is vulnerable and wise, a kid-hero, etc. I have such an emotional attachment to the book that I find it hard to tolerate much criticism of it. Case in point: I recently
خدایا.. واقعاً بهچنین چیزی نیاز داشتم.. چن وخته بهاینچیزا فک میکنم چن وخته دغدغههام رنگ و بوی اینکتابو گرفته ایناوّلین داستانی بود که از سلینجر خوندم و باید بگم خیلی خیلی خیلی ازش خوشم اومد. اگه همهی کتاباش همینطوریـن محشره. با داستاناش آدمو درمان میکنه. نکتهی حیرتانگیز داستان اینهکه نود درصدش دیالوگه و من شخصاً اصلاً خسته نشدم با دیالوگا. اونقد طبیعی و واقعی بودن و خب روح ِ منم بهشون نیاز داش.. و چقد نویسنده صادق و روراس نوشتهشون.. شخصیّتپردازی ِ بینظیر تکتک ِ شخصیّتها ستودنیه. فرنی رو با تمام
Most people of my generation read JD Salinger's A Catcher in the Rye back in high school, were amused by it's vulgarity and forthrightness and then forgot about it. I personally haven't reread it since. Instead, for this online Yale class on US lit since 1945, I read Franny and Zooey as it is on the syllabus. It is an interesting diptych. The shorter first part has Franny Glass meeting her boyfriend Lane at Yale and going to eat before a football game (Yale-Harvard perhaps.) The boyfriend
So, this semester I am teaching a course on postwar American novels. I am basically a former high school English teacher who became an English educator (preparing people to become English teachers themselves), and only relatively recently have been asked to teach straight lit courses at my university as I usually have taught methods (of teaching) classes (though also YA and Graphic Novels) in the past quarter century. I just turned 61, and have not read many of these novels for this course for
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