
My Salinger Year
by Joanna Rakoff
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Pub Date 5 Jun 2014 | Archive Date 5 Jul 2014
Description
The Devil Wears Prada with a whiff of Mad Men and Girls - a charming coming-of-age memoir about a young woman who lands a job assisting J.D. Salinger's literary agent in the 1990s.
At 23, 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.D.
Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelled agency, where
Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-time agents doze at
their desks after martini lunches, and at night she goes home to the
tiny, threadbare Brooklyn apartment she shares with her socialist
boyfriend. Precariously balanced between glamour and poverty, surrounded
by titanic personalities and struggling to trust her own artistic
sense, Joanna is given the task of answering Salinger’s voluminous fan
mail. But as she reads the candid, heart-wrenching letters from his
readers around the world, she finds herself unable to type out the
agency’s decades-old form response. Instead, drawn inexorably into the
emotional world of Salinger’s devotees, she abandons the template and
begins writing back …
Poignant, keenly observed and irresistibly funny, My Salinger Year
is a memoir about literary New York in the late ‘90s, a pre-digital
world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself swept
into one of the last great stories and entangled with one of the last
great figures of the century. Above all, it is the coming-of-age story
of a talented writer and a testament to the universal power of books to
shape our lives.
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Marketing Plan
Not just for Salinger fans - this charming coming-of-age memoir is The Devil Wears Prada meets Julie & Julia, with a dash of Mad Men and a touch of Girls
River Road Entertainment have optioned the screen rights to My Salinger Year and a film script is currently being written.
In
2011, BBC Radio 4 produced a 30-minute radio documentary in which they
followed Joanna Smith Rakoff as she sought (and found) the writer of her
favourite Salinger fan letter
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781408830178 |
PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |