Author: Shields, David and Shane Salerno,
Title: Salinger: the official book of the acclaimed documentary film.
Description: NY, Simon & Schuster, (2013). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Why did this writer, celebrated by the world, stop publishing? This investigation into Salinger's epic life transports you. from the bloody beaches of Normandy where Salinger landed under fire carrying the first six chapters of The Cathcer in the Rye to the hottest nightclub in the world, the Stork Club, where he romanced the beautiful 16 yr old Oona O"Neill until she met Charlie Chaplin, from his top secret counterintelligence duties which took him to a subcamp of Dachau, to a love affair with a likely Gestapo agent whom he married and brought home to his Jewish parents' Park Agenue apartment, from the pages of The New Yorker, to the woods of New Hampshire, where the Vedanta religion took over his life and forced his flesh-and-blood family to compete with his imaginary Glass family. The cost of war and the cost of art. DJ rubbed.

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