This is a faction, a genre where characters, places, events and dates are real, and everything else is on the conscience of the author. This is Beigbeder, a French classic and a favorite of readers. They are Oona O’Neill, daughter of Nobelist Eugene O’Neill, and Jerome D. Salinger, writer. She is 15, he is 21. They met in America in 1941. They have an affair … But Salinger will go to war. Una will marry Charlie Chaplin and live 35 happy years of marriage. And Salinger will become Salinger. It is worth reading for the sake of a touching story, a chance to listen to Begbeder in the first person and present in detail what really happened.
Translation from French by Nina Khotinsky. Alphabet, 320 p.