{"product_id":"sergeant-salinger-paperback","title":"Sergeant Salinger - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJerome Charyn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ.D. Salinger, mysterious author of \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn's Salinger is a young American 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the war, interned in a Nuremberg psychiatric clinic, Salinger became enchanted with 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, the ghosts of the murdered inside his head, and stories to tell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, \u003ci\u003eSergeant Salinger\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind a novel that has marked generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJerome Charyn\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eCesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJerome Charyn\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eSergeant Salinger\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eJerzy: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eA Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e. Among other honors, his work has been longlisted for the PEN Award for Biography, shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, and selected as a finalist for the Firecracker Award and PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Charyn has also been named a Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture and received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 05, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699965366335,"sku":"9781942658740","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/bffcd40737f9e2272805804382bc6fd2.webp?v=1765015083","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/sergeant-salinger-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}