Re: 'peggy' salinger

part of matt's statement is quoted at the very end of
malcolm's article, link below (don't know if entire
article is readily available; never seen it myself):

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14272

kim

--- Michael J ANELLO <Michael.J.Anello@state.or.us>
wrote:
> it's interesting that matt salinger in his one
> statement re the memoir remarks that he doesn't
> recognize the home peggy describes.
>
> Does anyone have the link to Matt's statement? I'd
> just like to read it again...-Mike
>
> >>> haikux2@yahoo.com 05/14/03 11:56AM >>>
>
> --- kag river <kagriver@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > there was just too much mememememe in it
>
> yes, she sure seems self centered.
>
> how her editor allowed all of that post-6-year-old
> stuff in is beyond me.
>
> unfortunately, we didn't get a memoir from a
> balanced
> source.
>
> it's interesting that matt salinger in his one
> statement re the memoir remarks that he doesn't
> recognize the home
> fe peggy describes.
>
> however, even if peggy had many axes to grind, i
> don't
> think jds comes off well as either a father or
> husband.
>
> my pet theory re jds is that his relationships with
> women are off-kilter and it started with oona
> dumping
> him, and then sylvia bewitching him.
>
> as much as i find joyce maynard's self centeredness
> as
> offputting as peggy's, her revelations regarding
> jds's
> penchant for eighteen-year-olds further disturbs.
> (i
> think the intensity of the adult sexual relationship
> with sylvia sent jds off in the direction of his
> fixation with girls on the verge of womanhood. but
> who knows, this is all speculation....)
>
> kim
>
>
>
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