'... My suggestion would be to follow the above works
with a close reading of "Hapworth 16, 1924" ...'
It would take a heart of stone not to add one's own
warm personal endorsement of this recommendation.
John is absolutely right when he indicates its centrality
to any understanding of the Glass saga. In its joyous
exuberance, its droll whimsicality, its engaging circuitousness,
&, at the same time, its essential limpidity it is surely unique.
There is, of course, a certain naive charm about his apprentice
pieces, the Catcher & Esme, but nowhere else is his mastery
so wonderfully & visibly deployed. No one can truly claim
the title Salingerista who has not first absorbed all the lessons
& nuances of Hapworth.
Ignore it at your peril.
Scottie B.
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