The great recluse Jerome David Salinger for many years kept the details of his private life hidden not only from reporters, but even from those few people whom he considered friends.
The great recluse Jerome David Salinger for many years hid the details of his private life not only from reporters, but even from those few people whom he himself considered friends. In the book of memoirs, the writer’s daughter Margaret for the first time brings to the public court the facts that still remained a secret.
Salinger’s strange hobbies (in different years he practiced yoga, studied Scientology, belonged to several totalitarian Christian sects), conflicting relationships with lovers, parents and children, painful military experience, ambiguous perception of his own work — Margaret Salinger writes about all this honestly and clearly.
However, despite the abundance of frank details, her book cannot be called shocking: in every word of the memoirist there is not resentment or a desire to settle old scores, but deep love for her father and undeniable respect for his talent.
Limbus Press, 576 p.