Subject: Confession
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 13:03:21 GMT
I've been giving this some thought and:
For an old Salinger lover (one who nearly deified the man and his work
during my youth--I know, my mistake), Margaret Salinger's 'Dream Catcher'
and Joyce Maynard's 'At Home in the World' (which I read back-to-back) were
rough going, difficult to accept, but, alas, finally convincing,
eye-opening. Together, they constitute a diptych of damnation of the man.
Granted, one might seek safety in that lit crit theory of a firewall
separating man and work, but I'm not so sure how I'll feel the next time I
pick up a Salinger story.
--Bruce
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