Subject: Re: Dust Jackets
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 14:51:02 GMT
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:42:18AM -0700, citycabn wrote:
> It occurred to me that a good number of the bfish might never have seen
> Salinger's dust jacket writings.
and
> FRANNY AND ZOOEY dust jacket (1961):
>
>
> 'The author writes': FRANNY came out in 'The New Yorker' in 1955, and was
> swiftly followed, in 1957, by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical
> entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in
> twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently
> an ambitious one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner
> or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods,
> locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love
> working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life,
> and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due
> care and all-available skill.
It's worth noting, I think, that Salinger had agreed with Little,
Brown (his publisher) to write a multi-thousand-word introduction to
Franny & Zooey, but that at the last minute he reneged on it and
provided the jacket flap copy instead. So, the text you're seeing is
in lieu of what was supposed to be a much more significant chunk of
text introducing the two novellas.
That's what I know about Franny & Zooey. I don't know about Raise
High the Roof Beam, Carpenters.... Perhaps by then the publisher knew
better than to try to extract anything resembling an introduction.
--tim
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