Sam Moore
Public transport read
Really struck by Salinger here as a writer of childhood and innocence, how fragile it all is; the child on the beach in the first story; Esme; the slightly strange, Buddihst Teddy. Salinger evokes peoeple who don't know just how much they don't know, putting them at odds with a brutal, postwar world -- a world that's going through an existential crisis of its own
Great ear for dialogue, the spare prose does a lot to capture so much of this sense of the unknown; having thoughts and feelings that his protagonists so rarely have the words for.
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Read if you like: coming of age with the world around you; the fact a baseball game takes a whole day to play; telling a long story and getting lost along the way; not knowing who you could be tomorrow
Public transport read
Really struck by Salinger here as a writer of childhood and innocence, how fragile it all is; the child on the beach in the first story; Esme; the slightly strange, Buddihst Teddy. Salinger evokes peoeple who don't know just how much they don't know, putting them at odds with a brutal, postwar world -- a world that's going through an existential crisis of its own
Great ear for dialogue, the spare prose does a lot to capture so much of this sense of the unknown; having thoughts and feelings that his protagonists so rarely have the words for.
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Read if you like: coming of age with the world around you; the fact a baseball game takes a whole day to play; telling a long story and getting lost along the way; not knowing who you could be tomorrow