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...tender years of adolescence are puzzled by the new J. D. Salinger. We took Holden Caulfield to heart because he was our friend, betrayed and maltreated like us by an insensitive world. But the Glass family is beyond our ken. The saga of Seymour, Zooey and the others, clouded by esoteric references to Eastern philosophy, can not hold us as the story of the guileless school-boy did. Has Salinger changed in the ten years of transition? No, he remains essentially the same. We have changed; by growing up we have passed out of the author's small in-group...
...offspring of a Jewish-Irish vaudeville team. Super-intellegent from birth, they started in rotation on a radio quiz kid show. Grown-ups now, they are spread far afield: Buddy teachers English at an upstate New York girl's college; Walker is a priest; Boo Boo a Westchester matron; Zooey a rising TV actor; and Franny a college student. The greatest of them all, however, was Seymour, who committed suicide on vacation in an earlier Salinger story, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish...
FICTION 1. Ship of Fools, Porter (1, last week) 2. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (2) 3. The Prize, Wallace (6) 4. Another Country, Baldwin (5) 5. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (3) 6. Uhuru, Ruark (7) 7. The Reivers, Faulkner (4) 8. Hornblower and the Hotspur, Forester 9. Franny and Zooey, Salinger 10. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone...
...week) 2. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (2) 3. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (3) 4. The Reivers, Faulkner (4) 5. The Prize, Wallace (7) 6. Another Country, Baldwin (9) 7. Uhuru, Ruark (5) 8. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (8) 9. The Big Laugh, O'Hara (10) 10. Franny and Zooey, Salinger...
FICTION 1. Ship of Fools, Porter (1, last week) 2. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (2) 3. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (3) 4. The Reivers, Faulkner (6) 5. Uhuru, Ruark (4) 6. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (8) 7. The Prize, Wallace (5) 8. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (9) 9. Another Country, Baldwin (10) 10. The Big Laugh, O'Hara...