Re: van't to be alone


Subject: Re: van't to be alone
From: Will Hochman (Hochman@scsu.ctstateu.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 02:39:17 GMT


>Yes, today is the day when I can quickly agree with Scottie!
>Additionally (and for Cecillia especially) the information one
>encounters about Salinger is not the same as that Ms. Maynard
>offers. I have a bit less than a hundred pages left, but I can at
>least say that Maragret Salinger does some reasonable research and
>links fictive with actual in ways that I truly love...she is not
>writing a tell-all so much as trying to write to her own place of
>perception and understanding...yes, she grew up with a troubled
>family life and collected a set of set-backs, but she doesn't ignore
>what made her who she is and I for one, am refreshed with critical
>vigor! For one thing, Margaret champions those early, uncollected
>stories of Salingers that I too have loved even more than the more
>literary and better polished Nine...for another thing, she uses her
>vantage point to link moments of her father's fiction and reality to
>ideas that do not focus on tawdry themes so much as the concerns
>that I felt too growing up--I'm only 3 years older than Ms. Salinger
>and so I am reading her memoir with heightened sense of sharing a
>parallel chronology and culture--she's the real deal in my opinion.
>Not a story teller and creative power like her father, Ms Salinger
>is nonetheless clear in understanding the value of the ideas and
>feelings in her prose as she works through them.

will

> Ridiculous. Wringing one's hands over Jerome's privacy is like
> worrying about Jennifer Anniston's.
>
> Scottie B.
>
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