Sergeant Salinger / Jerome Charyn.
| Author/creator | Charyn, Jerome author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : Bellevue Literary Press, [2021] |
| Description | 286 pages ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Sgt Salinger |
| Abstract | "J.D. Salinger, the mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a litigious misanthrope who disowned his daughter. Jerome Charyn's Sergeant Salinger is a young WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war--from the landing on D-Day to the relentless hand-to-hand combat in the hedgerows of Normandy, to the Battle of the Bulge, and finally to the first Allied entry into a Bavarian death camp, where corpses were piled like cordwood. After the war, interned in a Nuremberg psychiatric clinic, Salinger was bewitched by a suspected Nazi informant. They married, but not long after he brought her home to New York, the marriage collapsed. Maladjusted to civilian life, he lived like a 'spook', with invisible stripes on his shoulder and the ghosts of the murdered inside his head. Grounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, this is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind a novel that has marked generations."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Charyn, Jerome. Sergeant Salinger. First edition. New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2020. 9781942658757 |
| Genre/form | Biographical fiction. |
| Genre/form | Historical fiction. |
| Genre/form | Psychological fiction. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Biographical fiction. |
| LCCN | 2020002574 |
| ISBN | 9781942658740 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781942658825 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1942658745 paperback |
| ISBN | 1942658826 hardcover |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS3553 .H33 S47 2021 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |