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FREE MY SALINGER YEAR PDF Joanna Rakoff | 272 pages | 05 Jun 2014 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 9781408855508 | English | London, United Kingdom My Salinger Year () - IMDb Goodreads My Salinger Year you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating My Salinger Year. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly funny: a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself entangled with one of the My Salinger Year great figures of the century. At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and Poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly funny: a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself entangled with one of the last great figures of the century. At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. She spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-time agents doze at their desks after martini lunches. At night she goes home to the tiny, threadbare Williamsburg apartment she shares with her socialist boyfriend. Rakoff paints a vibrant portrait of a bright, hungry young woman navigating a heady and longed-for world, trying to square romantic aspirations with burgeoning self-awareness, the idea of a life with life itself. Charming and deeply moving, filled with electrifying glimpses of an American literary icon, My Salinger Year is the coming-of-age story My Salinger Year a talented writer. Above all, it is a testament to the universal power of books to shape our lives and awaken our true selves. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. Published June 3rd by Knopf first published March 1st More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about My Salinger Yearplease sign up. Aeroman I read it on ebook from my library on overdrive. See 2 questions about My Salinger Year…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of My Salinger Year. Jun 03, Julie Christine rated it it was amazing Shelves: bio-autobio-memoirbest-ofread The former, a struggling novelist, informs her emotional and artistic development, and breaks her heart more times than he's worth. Which is, as it happens, not much. Correspondence is done via the postal service. There are telephones of course, but no one has voicemail. If anyone calls after hours, the office phones simply ring and ring, echoing down the dimly lit hallways lined with plush carpet. Enter Jerry, the Agency's most celebrated client. And if the Agency's president doesn't step up her game, he might be the last client standing. Delivering a breathless scene with a comic's sense of timing, Rakoff meets another famous client, Judy Blume. Just the one time. Judy, along with a My Salinger Year stream of other writers, quits the Agency to seek representation where the 21st century is acknowledged as a done deal. Jerry is, of course, J. A writer whom My Salinger Year Rakoff, budding writer herself, has never read. Jerry, hard of hearing, reclusive, and endearing, has expressed interest in having his long short story, Hapworth 16, —which first appeared in The New Yorker in — published as a novel by a tiny press in Virginia. For eight months, Rakoff resists reading Salinger, certain his lionized status is hyperbole and his writing trite. But she becomes immediately fascinated by the enormous volume of fan mail the author continues to receive, thirty years after his last publication. It is My Salinger Year job to inform each correspondent that the Agency, per Mr. Salinger's directions, cannot forward the letter to the author or respond to any requests. When she finally does read Salinger, it is in a revelatory binge. That weekend of Salinger sets the tone for the brief time that she remains at the Agency, but it also leads her to finding her writing voice. The interactions with J. But at its tender heart, My Salinger Year is the coming of age tale of a young woman and writer and an ode to being young and sort-of single in New York, living in an unheated apartment in Williamsburg and taking the subway to Madison Avenue to talk in plummy, tweedy tones with other underpaid literati. It is a gloriously, unabashedly nostalgic memoir and yes, utterly charming. Rakoff's writing is breezy and self-effacing, completely in character with the twenty-three-year-old woman who recounts this seminal year. Only an accomplished and confident writer could manage to sustain that tone with authenticity. Joanna Rakoff enchants readers with an elegant memoir that reads like a curl-up-with-a-cuppa novel. She's just won My Salinger Year new admirer. View all 17 comments. My Salinger Year rating this book 5 stars well-aware that this book is not for everyone, which actually makes it a weird 5 stars for My Salinger Year. It is a very simple book, and I'm sure that not everyone My Salinger Year going to love its simplicity as much as I did. However, I always review books based on how I personally feel about them, and this one was perfection My Salinger Year my eyes. This is a fictional piece of work based on facts. It's about Joanna Rakoff who, as a year-old, obtains a job in New York at a literary agency. With time I'm rating My Salinger Year book 5 stars well-aware that this book is not for everyone, which actually makes it a weird 5 stars for me. With time, she My Salinger Year that this agency covers the infamous J. Salinger, and with time, Rakoff gets more and more into his My Salinger Year and his life while she gradually learns about the publishing world and writing books. As I said, this story is very simple. Salinger, and this book My Salinger Year me a lot of information on that book as well as on Salinger's life and personality. This information mingles with Rakoff's own life in a magical way I can't really explain, and it's based on the truth! This book allowed for My Salinger Year to revisit Salinger's universe but with a different set of reading glasses. Everything is told from Rakoff's perspective, and it becomes a book both about Salinger, but also about My Salinger Year own life, insecurities and her growing up. I can't really explain it much better even though this review probably leaves much to wish for. I recommend this book to anyone who has a love for J. Salinger, and for those of you who have yet to read any of his works, maybe this My Salinger Year will inspire you to actually pick up a book of his and maybe hopefully cherish him as much as I do View 2 comments. Mar 02, Edan rated it My Salinger Year was amazing. Vivid, precise, utterly absorbing. I was reading this as I made my son scrambled eggs this morning I could not tear myself away. I loved the descriptions of the venerable agency's refusal to enter the digital age; I loved Joanna's vulnerability and youth; My Salinger Year love the descriptions of New York in the s; I loved her awful, fake-Communist, arrogant boyfriend; I love imagining a boss smoking cigarettes in her large office; I love the way Salinger is at the edges of Joanna's story, My Salinger Year also centr Vivid, precise, utterly absorbing. I loved the descriptions of the venerable agency's refusal to enter the digital age; I loved Joanna's vulnerability and youth; I love the descriptions of New York in My Salinger Year s; I loved her awful, fake-Communist, arrogant boyfriend; I love imagining a boss smoking cigarettes in her large office; I love the way Salinger is at the edges of Joanna's story, and also central to it in this very sly and meaningful way. It made me want to revisit his work. An assured, thoughtful, fun and touching read. My Salinger Year fun and My Salinger Year hearted read about Joanna, who leaves her degree program and her college boyfriend, and finds a job with a literary agent. Simply called "The Agency, this is the agency that represents Salinger. Although she expects to find herself busy reading manuscripts, she instead finds herself typing letters on a typewriter and answering phones. Although this is the mid nineties, the office, or least her boss, defies technological advances in favor of the archaic way the agency has always r A fun and light hearted read about Joanna, who leaves her degree program and her college boyfriend, and finds a job with a literary agent. Although this is the mid nineties, the office, or least My Salinger Year boss, defies technological advances in favor of the archaic way My Salinger Year agency has always run. It is amusing to read how delighted they are when a copier is finally delivered and they no longer need to use carbon paper.

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