Re: jewish characters in Salinger
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 20:17:11 +1000
Paul - you must listen harder, for it was I who eulogised the splendid Mr
Maupin not two months ago on these very cyberpages! I read and was totally
engaged by the Tales of the City series and I agree - they make great
travel books (I must commend Canada for chipping in the extra money to make
`More Tales of the City' BTW. Australia is ready and waiting if they ever
raise the dough for the rest of the series) I bought `Even Cowgirls Get The
Blues' about a week ago at a secondhand shop but I'll take your advice on
that one, too - the others remain mysteries, which I eagerly await to
discover!
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
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> Hey Camille:
>
> I feel like I'm about to appear naked before the bananafishbowl.... You
> asked:
> >
> >By the way, I've got a 20-odd hour bus ride approaching, can anyone
> >recommend some reading material to a lover of Salinger, Nabokov,
Mansfield
> >et al? Something entertaining but not *too* easy. I plan to take half my
> >weight in books with me, lots of stuff I've always meant to read, e.g.
`Day
> >of the Locust' by Nathaniel West.
> >
> >
>
> Now, I know that I've already sent you a list of my top ten Canadian
> authors. But I'm now going to sugggest four writers whose work is so
> unfashionably low-brow (read: popular) that I suspect I'm supposed to be
> embarassed about recommending them.
>
> TOM ROBBINS (forget EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES, and go directly to an
> early novel named ANOTHER ROADSIDE ATTRACTION)
>
> ARMISTEAD MAUPIN (once you start TALES OF THE CITY, I predict that you'll
> find it impossible to stop before reading ALL the 'novels' in the
series....
> Comparisons to Dickens are totally appropriate--especially since this
soap
> opera was initially serialized in some San Francisco newspaper....)
>
> 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....
>
> MARK SINGER.... I read IRON AND SILK (is that the title?) when I was
living
> in China, and I was amazed that an American could capture things so
> perfectly....
>
> Now that I've put my pedestrian tastes in full view of the
bananafishbowl, I
> suspect that no one will ever believe I also LOVE Tolstoy, Chekov and
> Dostoyevsky.... and Salinger, of course.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul