![]() ![]() The astonishing A Perfect Day for Bananafish, and the insight it gives into the character and demise of Seymour Glass throws everything that follows into stark relief. ![]() Looking at the books as a series (as Salinger clearly did), it makes sense to start with the earlier Glass stories. Franny, with its tight, tense narrative and satisfying resolution wouldn’t feel out of place alongside other Salinger stories like A Perfect Day for Bananafish and Just Before the War With the Eskimos. I’d be loth to let Zooey go, but I understand Deadgod’s logic. “I think the two pieces are put together poorly because, partly, of their unlike texture: Franny, to me, is coherent and tight – each piece following from and leading into the ones before and after … Zooey is the self-indulgently unrealistic thing many have complained of.”ĭeadgod also put forward the intriguing idea of quietly putting Zooey “on an open source footing” and adding Franny to the collection known in the US as Nine Stories (it’s For Esme With Love and Squalor in the UK), and making a new book: Ten Stories. ![]()
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