Nine Stories

by J. D. Salinger

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Book Overview: Nine Stories

The original, first-rate, serious, and beautiful short fiction (New York Times Book Review) that introduced J. D. Salinger to American readers in the years after World War II, including A Perfect Day for Bananafish and the first appearance of Salinger’s fictional Glass family.
Nine exceptional stories from one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and frequently affecting, Nine Stories sits alongside Salinger’s very best work–a treasure that will passed down for many generations to come. The stories:

A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut
Just Before the War with the Eskimos
The Laughing Man
Down at the Dinghy
For Esmé–with Love and Squalor
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period
Teddy

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Editorial Reviews

“The most perfectly balanced collection of stories I know… Nine Stories is a book I’ve gone back to at different moments in my life, and I always find something new. I’ve passionately loved different stories at different times, first ‘Teddy, ‘ later ‘For Esmé–with Love and Squalor.’ I could list all of them.” — Ann Patchett, Parade

“J. D. Salinger’s writing is original, first-rate, serious, and beautiful. Here are nine of his stories, and one further reason that they are so interesting, and so powerful seen all together, is that they are paradoxes. From the outside, they are often very funny: inside they are about heartbreak, and convey it; they can do this because they are pure…What this reader loves about Mr. Salinger’s stories is that they honor what is unique and precious in each person on earth. Their author has the courage–it is more like the earned right and privilege–to experiment at the risk of not being understood. Best of all, he has a loving heart.” — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review

About the Author

J. D. Salinger

J. D. Salinger was an American author, best known for his critically acclaimed novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” published in 1951. Born on January 1, 1919, in Manhattan, New York, Salinger began writing short stories while in secondary school and developed a profound interest in literature. He served in World War II, and his war experiences influenced his writing. “Nine Stories,” “Franny and Zooey,” and “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction” are prominent works that added to his fame. Salinger was notorious for his reclusive nature, spending the last decades of his life away from the public eye. He passed away on January 27, 2010, leaving a lasting legacy in American literature.