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This format is definitely the best way to experience this book. Read in her own clear voice, the events taking place over 40 years ago can still cause pain even when an entirely different life has passed in the interim. Joyce Maynard was pilloried for writing this at the time in the late 90s by those who iconize Salinger, feeling she had invaded his obsessive privacy. Now, with so much attention being paid to his memory and the world eagerly awaiting release of the books that purport to bring to
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When it was first published in 1998, At Home in the World set off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard's memoir broke a silence concerning her relationship—at age eighteen—with J.D. Salinger, the famously reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, then age fifty-three, who had read a story she wrote for The New York Times in her freshman year of college and sent her a letter that changed her life. Reviewers called her book "shameless" and "powerful" and its author was simulta
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You will never look at JD Salinger the same again. This is a heartbreaking and kind of shocking story.
Jan 31, 2014
Elizabeth De Marco
marked it as to-read
