Franny, increasingly irritated with so much that is phoney in Lane’s egocentric world. Over lunch, her boyfriend, Lane, launches into a long monologue about a brilliant paper that he has written. "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.I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life. Franny, the first of two sequential stories about the Glass family, is set on the first day of Franny’s weekend visit to her boyfriend’s college. I still treasure it and I don't think I've read anything since that has affected me and inspired me as much, both as a reader and a writer." " Franny and Zooey is one of the few books that I've returned to every year.I love it for its comedy-Salinger's dialogue is wonderful-for its mocking fondness, and as a portrait of a troubled, loving family. Salinger's stories will decidedly continue to widen the range of contemporary reading." "You can see Salinger's increasing mastery on page after page.If the world survives, as it shows a magnificently stubborn intention of doing, Mr. Janet Malcolm, New York Review of Books "Brilliant.What makes reading Salinger such a consistently bracing experience is our sense of always being in the presence of something that-whatever it is-isn't fishy."
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