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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:
 Who says it is an arm? March 19, 1999
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Stop this! This instant! Stop. Stop. Just listen to him. Stop commenting. You all prove his points. Don't you see? Stop the misguided glorification. Stop the petulant bickering. Stop it. Vomit up the apple. That is the message in this book. We all wake up when we die, right? So stop it. Please. Jerome David Salinger is not Christ. Seymore is not Christ. Buddy is not saying they are. But they see Christ in everyone. The fat lady, remember? Shine your shoes for the fat lady.
 A reader and an apple eater March 4, 1999
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The bookend stories were the best. But Salinger is certainly not the American Borges as some have claimed. John Cheever, Richard Yates, Sherwood Anderson; these were great short story writers. The attraction is to read these stories for some hints about the Glass family. I find something disturbing about this family or more on target, the reaction of readers to the Glass family. Seymour could clip his toenails and readers would find in this activity some symbolic comment on The Eight Fold Path or, perhaps, the essence of Zen in the manner Seymour tosses the clippings into an ashtray. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes you don't like a story because it's weak and not because you missed the East-Salinger Symbolism.I found it amusing that all nine stories repeatedly used cigarettes as plot propellants. Was J. D. under grant from Lucky Strikes? Whenever Salinger wants you to know he's about to be prophetic he uses a cigarette as a harbinger of the coming epiphany. His characters handle cigarettes, smoke them, and move ashtrays about and, on two occasions, even handle the contents of the ashtrays. A cigarette can be a great prop, but not for nine straight stories.
THE BEST OF SALINGER February 23, 1999
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this collection of short stories even better than "Catcher" - they are so varied. Of course, "Bananafish" - so sweet and off the wall - is my favorite, but the others are great. "The Laughing Man" will make you cry and "De-Daumier-Smith" is a hoot! I've read these stories over and over - my copy is falling apart. If you liked "Catcher", you'll love "Nine Stories"!
An Amazing Reflection on the Human Condition January 19, 1999
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Salinger's Nine Stories provoke an amazing, insightful debate inside one's own mind about the nature of humanity. The imagery and symbolic connections play an important role in this thought provoking masterpiece. I would suggest this book to anyone who wishes to persue the basic idea of existence.
Touching. December 16, 1998
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Salinger's way of telling a story is unique. There always seems to be a sadness that blankets the story and his sense of tragedy and sorrow are very subtle, but poignant.Too bad about that whole pedophilia thing, though. It's quite distracting.
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