Franny and Zooey
by J. D. Salinger
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The book comprises a novella and a short story, both about members of Salinger's famous Glass family, the central figures in most of his later fiction. In "Franny," a bright college student (Franny Glass), like Holden Caulfield in THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, is unable to resolve the conflict between her deepest self and the superficiality of the world. In "Zooey," after Franny's nervous breakdown, her brother Zooey urges her to accept the world and seek to perfect herself.
Editions of Franny and Zooey
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Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Little Brown & Co |
Date 1961 |
Price $10.79 |
 Good |
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Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Back Bay Books |
Date 2001 |
Price $4.71 |
Acceptable |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Lb Books |
Date 1991 |
Price $1.00 |
Used, Good |
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Binding/Format Prebinding |
Publisher Bt Bound |
Date 1999 |
Price None Available |
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Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Bantam Books |
Date 1969 |
Price $1.00 |
Used, Good |
Media Reviews
"The worst of American sophistication today is that it is so bored, so full of categorical aversion to things that writers should never take for granted and never close their eyes to. The fact that Salinger's work is particularly directed against the 'well fed sun-burned' people at the summer theater, at the 'section men' in colleges...at the 'three-martini' men--this, indeed, is what is wrong. He hates them. They are no longer people, but symbols...The problem is not one of spiritual pride or of guilt; it is that in the tearing of the 'sympathetic bond' it is not love that goes, but the deepest possiblilites of literary art."
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