Exclusive: JD Salinger's new-look oeuvre

This collection, originally published as Nine Stories in the US in 1953, contains some of Salinger's greatest short fiction, including the title story (first published in the New Yorker in 1950), in which an army sergeant recalls his meeting with a young girl before he was sent to war, and A Perfect Day for Bananafish, the first of Salinger's stories of the Glass family
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Salinger's third book, published in 1961, takes us deeper into the verbose, intellectual, fragile lives of the Glasses - a brilliant but brittle family of Upper West Side New Yorkers - through the doings of two of the younger members of the clan, brother and sister Franny and Zooey
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The third instalment in the Glass family saga is narrated by Buddy, the second of the Glass brothers. His purpose is to introduce us to his older brother, Seymour, whose suicide is the subject of Salinger's earlier story, A Perfect Day for Bananafish
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Salinger's most famous work, The Catcher in the Rye has sold more than 65m copies around the world since its publication in 1951. The story of three days in the life of Holden Caulfield - whose irritable ennui and contempt for what he calls 'phoneys' have made him a poster-boy for adolescent disenchantment - as he drifts around New York after being expelled from school, is widely held up as a defining novel of the 20th century
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