J. D. Salinger Audiobook by Thomas Beller

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1581/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: J. D. Salinger Subtitle: The Escape Artist Author: Thomas Beller Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins Language: English Release date: 06-03-14 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary: A spirited, deeply personal inquiry into the near-mythic life and canonical work of J. D. Salinger by a writer known for his sensitivity to the Manhattan culture that was Salinger's great theme. Three years after his death at 91, J.D. Salinger remains our most mythic writer. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) became an American classic, and he was for a long time the writer for The New Yorker. Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters introduced, by way of the Glass family, a new type in contemporary literature: the introspective, voluble cast of characters whose stage is the Upper East Side of New York. But fame proved a burden, and in 1953 Salinger fled to New Hampshire, spending the next half century in isolation. Beller has followed his subjects trail, from his Park Avenue childhood to his final refuge, barnstorming across New England to visit various Salinger shrines, interviewing just about everyone alive who ever knew Salinger. The result is a quest biography in the tradition of Geoff Dyers Out of Sheer Rage, an audiobook as much about the biographer as about the subject - two vivid, entertaining stories in one.