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| Nine Stories | 
 enlarge | Author: J. D. Salinger
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Category: Book
List Price: £13.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 327030
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0316767727
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780316767729
ASIN: 0316767727
Publication Date: January 30, 2001
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| Customer Reviews:
 What would we do without bananafish? March 30, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ok, I'll say from the start that I am hopelessly devoted to "A Perfect Day for A Bananafish". I have it almost memorized and I will even admit that I almost cried when I read the ending. Then relationships that Salinger creates between his adult and children characters is so typical - you can almost see the four-year old that you know saying the exact same thing. And just imagining Seymour Glass going away from a charming conversation with a child to the depression of his hotel room really affected me. It's hard to explain, but Salinger does that with many of his stories. God bless him!
salinger's writing is uncanny and absolutely brilliant!!! March 27, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Salinger is truly gifted. Each story will blow you away. Teddy,the last story,is the best short story i have ever read in my entire life! It says so much about life and death. it starts out as a simple narrative and then just takes your head off! unparralled! People that have not read Salinger have and are missing out. Yeah,these reviews seem too much, but i promise you if you give Salinger a try, he will change your life. This guy truly had a gift,and no one has ever reached human beings as deep and as honestly as J.D.Salinger......enough said!
An eternal classic... March 26, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having only know JD from Catcher, which was on a school curriculum list, I picked up an old UK version of Nine Stories, not realizing what book I was reading as it was entitled "For Esme-with Love and Squalor." I now realize I'm reading one of the great classics. I try to keep abreast of good, new literature to read but now I wonder why I don't pick up an oldie more often. There's a REASON they have the reputation they do! No more struggling thru English Patient's for me.... there's so much to be found on the classics' shelf!!
For J.D., with Love and Squalor March 23, 1999
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Even the story that I like least in this book I reread every couple of months or so. A collection of short stories published previously in magazines (esp. The New Yorker), Nine Stories fills in many of the blanks left by the other books. So you read Catcher in the Rye in high school and want to read more Salinger now that you're older? Read this. Then read everything else the man has written. Go to your library and find microfiche copies of his unpublished stories and read those too.
The Bedside Salinger! March 21, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
To all those people who went: 'wow!' when they gave their eyes the gift of 'Catcher in the Rye', this book is a must! It is the perfect item to join the lamp, the alarm clock and the glass of water on the bedside table and can be the highlight of your journey home on the bus every evening. I myself, a 17 year old, British Salinger fan who wishes that New York was nearer, would go as far to say that 'Bananafish' is a classic. The ending shocked me and made me think 'Thank God for J.D!'. If you are a fan of Salinger's then take advantage of Amazon and buy this Goddam piece of history. (P.S. If you think I am being over-the-top about all of this, just get the book and then apologise).
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