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by Jerome Charyn
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language: english
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press, January of 2021 ‧
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A shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combat

J.D. Salinger, mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn’s Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war—from the landing on D-Day to the relentless hand-to-hand combat in the hedgerows of Normandy, to the Battle of the Bulge, and finally to the first Allied entry into a Bavarian death camp, where corpses were piled like cordwood.

After the war, interned in a Nuremberg psychiatric clinic, Salinger became enchanted with a suspected Nazi informant. They married, but not long after he brought her home to New York, the marriage collapsed. Maladjusted to civilian life, he lived like a “spook,” with invisible stripes on his shoulder, the ghosts of the murdered inside his head, and stories to tell.

Grounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, Sergeant Salinger is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind a novel that has marked generations.

Sergeant Salinger

by Jerome Charyn

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ISBN: 9781942658757
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Release Date: January of 2021
Language: English
Format: eBook
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EAN: 9781942658757
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jerome Charyn

A obra de Jerome Charyn, prolífica, impressionante e recompensada com numerosos prémios, é caracterizada por uma escrita única e por um universo fabulosamente pessoal. Impregnadas pela cidade de Nova Iorque, onde o autor nasceu em 1937, as suas obras põem em evidência uma cidade onde abundam ruas misteriosas, recantos secretos e bairros sombrios…
Originário do Bronx, Jerome Charyn conduz-nos, através de ruelas e travessas, entre desequilíbrio e caos, por zonas muitas vezes policiais e por vezes autobiográficas.
Mestre incontestado do romance policial (Blue Eyes, Marilyn the Wild, Citizen Sidel), Charyn parte em busca do "Sonho Americano" e de todos aqueles que lhe dão forma: traficantes, polícias, imigrados, políticos desonestos, almas solitárias..., contando a história dos condenados e dos proscritos da cidade que nunca dorme. Boca do Diabo, A Mulher do Mágico e Little Tulip, realizados em colaboração com François Boucq, não escapam a esta regra. Escritor humanista e talentoso, Jerome Charyn é também autor de numerosos romances (Darlin’ Bill, Metropolis, etc.), ensaios e novelas. Considerado por muitos como um dos escritores mais importantes da literatura americana contemporânea, surpreende-nos a cada obra.

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