Salinger [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition] Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
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Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people - and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company - Salinger is a global cultural event: the definitive biography of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the 20th century.
For more than 50 years, the ever elusive author of The Catcher in the Rye has been the subject of a relentless stream of newspaper and magazine articles as well as several biographies. Yet all of these attempts have been hampered by a fundamental lack of access and by the persistent recycling of inaccurate information. Salinger remains, astonishingly, an enigma. The complex and contradictory human being behind the myth has never been revealed.
No longer.
In the eight years since Salinger was begun, and especially in the three years since Salinger's death, the authors interviewed on five continents more than 200 people, many of whom had previously refused to go on the record about their relationship with Salinger. This oral biography offers direct eyewitness accounts from Salinger's World War II brothers-in-arms, his family members, his close friends, his lovers, his classmates, his neighbors, his editors, his publishers, his New Yorker colleagues, and people with whom he had relationships that were secret even to his own family. Shields and Salerno illuminate most brightly the last 56 years of Salinger's life: a period that, until now, had remained completely dark to biographers.
Provided unprecedented access to diaries, letters, legal records, and secret documents, listeners will feel they have, for the first time, gotten beyond Salinger's meticulously built-up wall. The result is the definitive portrait of one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century.
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 19 hours and 33 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: September 3, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DDYP3RA
Because I consider myself a fan of J.D. Salinger I had big expectations from this book by authors David Shields and Shane Salerno.
They made extensive research that lasted for nine years, they gathered 200+ interviews all around the world, found lot of history records and lost photographs, even they managed to find some of his unpublished works but in the end the result is not so good.
Salinger was a complicated person and obviously it wasn't easy to write biography of such a man.
Unfortunately, the reader will learn only few facts beside countless life episodes and anecdotes, not completely uninteresting but not something that we could expected.
The only exception is completely covered Salinger's experience during World War II, from Normandy invasion to the liberation of German Dachau concentration camp.
The main problem is that book is not really written in usual way, but more it resembles screenplay to the Salinger movie that would be also released.
Indeed, you will see the name of each person speaking in separate paragraph so reader have an impression that this book is one big interview with countless participants that is hard to follow.
The other problems are incompleteness of end notes, lots of misspelling, lack of index, etc. that all suggest that book was rushed to sale to accompany the release of the movie.
The book price is also a bit too high, especially for paperback edition but also considering that the book is actually of smaller dimensions than usual hardcovers.
Overall, after you read this book you will probably have feeling that in fact not much useful can be learned from it about Salinger.
I reject this . . . collection of words, for the same reasons stated in the other negative reviews. This is not a book, it's a chaotic, repetitive landfill of fragmentary quotes. You may ask why I wrote my own review, if I agreed with the others. I want to do my part to keep the 1-star count high, so people are fairly warned before they waste time and money on this . . . thing.
The trailer for the associated documentary film flashed in front of me at a theater. It looked exciting. I had read only "Catcher In The Rye," and knew little about Salinger the man. When I saw the book, I clicked on it right away. I wish I had checked the customer reviews first. As stated, you get hundreds of pages of disconnected drivel.
Person 1: When Jerry came back from the war, he never was the same.
Person 2: Something happened to him over there.
Person 3: The Jerry who went to Europe was not the Jerry who came home.
These are not actual quotes, but the text is that shallow. The same banal thoughts are repeated ENDLESSLY. Twenty, thirty, fifty times, a new person says exactly the same thing. I stuck it out to the end, curious to see if the 'authors' would provide any conclusion whatever. They do. In the final chapter, they bring their psychological examination of Salinger to a bombastic, unsupported conclusion. This was almost fun, like watching an Olympic competition for blowhards.
This publication is a horrible mess. Try any other book on Salinger, or just go read Wikipedia, you'll be much better off.
During this excruciating yawnfest, I reflected on a larger phenomenon. People like Salerno and Shields ask, "What was wrong with Salinger? He must have been deeply wounded. If he were healthy, he would welcome our attention.
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