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My Salinger Year

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TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
272 Seiten
Englisch
Bloomsbury Tradeerschienen am02.07.2015
The much-loved, irresistibly funny memoir of literary New York which was an international bestseller and enchanted readers around the world - now a major film starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley, My New York Year Gripping and funny´ Observer Like a literary The Devil Wears Prada ... An irresistible read´ Harper´s Bazaar'Irresistible' Sunday Times'Spellbinding' GuardianAfter leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. Precariously balanced between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office - where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze after three-martini lunches - and then goes home to her threadbare Brooklyn apartment and her socialist boyfriend.Rakoff is tasked with processing Salinger´s voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency´s form response and impulsively begins writing back. The results are both humorous and moving, as Rakoff, while acting as the great writer´s voice, begins to discover her own.mehr
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KlappentextThe much-loved, irresistibly funny memoir of literary New York which was an international bestseller and enchanted readers around the world - now a major film starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley, My New York Year Gripping and funny´ Observer Like a literary The Devil Wears Prada ... An irresistible read´ Harper´s Bazaar'Irresistible' Sunday Times'Spellbinding' GuardianAfter leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. Precariously balanced between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office - where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze after three-martini lunches - and then goes home to her threadbare Brooklyn apartment and her socialist boyfriend.Rakoff is tasked with processing Salinger´s voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency´s form response and impulsively begins writing back. The results are both humorous and moving, as Rakoff, while acting as the great writer´s voice, begins to discover her own.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-4088-3397-1
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2015
Erscheinungsdatum02.07.2015
Seiten272 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht190 g
Artikel-Nr.33931783
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GenreRomane Taschenbuch

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Kritik
Hard to put down ... Demands sympathy, admiration, and attention ... Irresistible SUNDAY TIMESmehr

Autor

Joanna Rakoff is a poet and the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir My Salinger Year. She was the recipient of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction and the Elle Readers' Prize. As a journalist and critic, she has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Time Out and O: The Oprah Magazine. The BBC produced a radio documentary following her as she tracked down the writer of her favourite Salinger fan letter. She has degrees from Columbia University, University College London and Oberlin College. Joanna Rakoff lives in Cambridge, MA.www.joannarakoff.com @jrakoff