My Salinger Year: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307947987)

A keenly observed and irresistibly funny memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing.

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 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.

Author: Joanna Rakoff
ISBN-10: 030794798X
ISBN-13: 9780307947987
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/12/2015
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 06/21/2015 pg. 24