American Literature / Unit 16 AML 1520 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Salinger's Later Books and His Silence
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The idea
Nine Stories appeared in nineteen fifty-three, Franny and Zooey in nineteen sixty-one, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters in nineteen sixty-three, a gathering of magazine stories. The witness records that after one story in nineteen sixty-five he was absent from the literary scene.
In practice
Three books, then nothing.
Where people slip
The withdrawal is part of his public story.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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