Re: jewish characters in Salinger
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:30:52 -0400 (EDT)
Hey Sonny! Where have you been?
I have a little something that I want to send you <snail mail>, but I'll
need your address
>> JAY McINERNY (sp?) ...try the early novel about Japan, I forget what it's
>> called.... I also enjoyed the more recent book that's set in the deep
>> South....
>
> Now which one is that? _Ransom_?
>
Yup, RANSOM is about an American teaching ESL in Japan. It's got an IQ
that's approximately seventy-five times higher than BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG
CITY.... I wish I could remember the title of the other novel. It's about a
booze and drug soaked Southerner from the Sixties (I wonder why I like it so
much? Care to venture any Freudian insights, Scottie?) and the title plays
some sort of pun upon his surname....
Cheers,
Paul