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Zen and the Art of the Glass Family in J.D. Salinger’s Short Stories

by Paul Thomson on Mar 24, 2010

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} While J.D.Salinger is best known for his 1951 classic The Catcher in the Rye , hisown favorite works center on a family of brilliant, reclusive, unorthodoxformer child prodigies known as the Glasses. (Think Royal Tenenbaums, only withvaudeville performers for parents.) Through these short stories, Salinger notonly fleshes out his most cherished creations, but also elaborates on hisrelationship...Read More >>

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