Book
My Salinger year / Joanna Rakoff.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307947987 (paperback)
- ISBN: 9780307958006 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 249 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. |
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| Subject: | Smith Rakoff, Joanna, 1972- Authors, American > 21st century > Biography. Literature publishing > United States > History > 21st century. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud Branch | 818.603 Smith | 31681002563146 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Traces the author's experiences in 1990s New York as the assistant to the agent of J.D. Salinger, a job that contrasted with her threadbare personal life and was enriched by the famous writer's fan letters. - Random House, Inc.
A keenly observed and irresistibly funny memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing.Â
Now a major motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley
After 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 officeâwhere Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze after three-martini lunchesâand then goes home to her threadbare Brooklyn apartment and her socialist boyfriend.
Rakoff is tasked with processing Salingerâs voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agencyâs form response and impulsively begins writing back. The results are both humorous and moving, as Rakoff, while acting as the great writerâs voice, begins to discover her own.
