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For Esme With Love and Splendour and Other Stories - J.D. Salinger


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For Esme With Love and Splendour and Other Stories - J.D. Salinger

 
Description: Author: JD Salinger / Genre: Fiction / Collection of short stories including A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle ... more
For Esme With Love and Splendour and Other Stories - J.D. Salinger ... Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, For Esme - With Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period and Teddy.

Newest Review: ... damn place surrounded." 'Just Before the War with the Eskimos' introduces us to Selena and Ginnie, two girls who play ... more

 ... tennis together and share a cab home quite often. Ginnie always seems to pay though and she's fed up with it. When the cynical Ginnie decides to complain about this the girls come to the brink of falling out and Ginnie is left waiting in Selena's flat. She then meets Selena's brother Franklin, an encounter that makes up the bulk of this short story. Franklin (who is very Holden Caulfield) makes a big impression on Ginnie and she rethinks some of her attitudes. Some sparky Salinger style dialogue throughout; Ginnie b...more

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Jake+Speed
Crowned Review For Esme With Love and Splendour and Other Stories - J.D. Salinger: Nine Stories (1454 words)
by - written on 12/09/08 (Very useful, 213 readings)
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'For Esmé with Love and Squalor' is a classic collection of short stories by JD Salinger and was first published in 1953. The book runs to 148 pages and features nine different stories. Anyone who has read Catcher In The Rye but no other Salinger works should definitely get around to reading 'For Esmé with Love and Squalor'. It's the most readable and accessible of his other books and quite brilliant at times. The stories are sometimes dark, sometimes surreal, sometimes funny, sometimes touching, but all crackle with Salinger's invention, wonderful dialogue and sarcastic humour. 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish' begins 'For Esmé with Love and Squalor'. It's a ...  Read the complete review

LDWilkinson
Premium Review A Salinger Treasure! (326 words)
by - written on 13/01/02 (Useful, 900 readings)
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Aren't short stories, erm, convenient!? I meet a lot of people whom, like myself, have an attention span the length of a piece of string that happens to have been cut very short. Most of these people, like myself, have been reading the same novel for seven and a half years and phsically decay at the sight of War and Peace. However, as well as writing a novel called 'A Catcher in the Rye' that took me (cor blimey!) two days to read, J.D. Salinger wrote this little stunner - For Esme - With Love and Squaler and Other Stories. It's a book of short stories that are perfect for the kicking and screaming short attention span club! The stories, naturally, are ...  Read the complete review

hulahoop
Premium Review For Esme With Love and Splendour and Other Stories - J.D. Salinger: A perfect day for a bananafish (cult fiction at cut prices) (494 words)
by - written on 01/03/01 (Very useful, 2040 readings)
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The short stories by J.D Salinger give a different view of the strange period after the Second World War - a time that seems to pale into insignificance next to the war and events that came later. Having read the cult ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ I was advised to read ‘For Esme With Love and Squalor’ because I was intrigued by Salinger as a person and as a writer. His style in ‘For Esme’ is never quite as stylised as it is in narrating the few days of wilderness of the young Holden Caulfield in ‘Catcher in the Rye’, but maintains a kind of coldness and mystery, as well as perfectly, and uneasily, depicting the ...  Read the complete review

 

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