Franny and Zooey

J. D. Salinger

Aug 2019 · Sold by Little, Brown

About this ebook

"Perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation" (New York Times), J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey collects two works of fiction about the Glass family originally published in The New Yorker.

"Everything everybody does is so--I don't know--not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and--sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way."

A novel in two halves, Franny and Zooey brilliantly captures the emotional strains and traumas of entering adulthood. It is a gleaming example of the wit, precision, and poignancy that have made J. D. Salinger one of America's most beloved writers.

Ratings and reviews

i read this book in a post highschool class during my pre-freshmen year of college. (1975) it's one of those books that got recorded in my short term memory but missed being etched in my llong term memory. The unusual names for that time period stuck in my head, though. i don't recall any of the plot. but i believ it struck me as an intriguing theme. i was rather new to gender issues. And I certainly hadn't given much thought to my own convictions.

I've read this book a dozen times and the last page still gives me goose bumps. Mystical nirvana in a bathrobe.

wonderful read. highly recommend

About the author

J. D. Salinger was born in New York City on January 1, 1919, and died in Cornish, New Hampshire, on January 27, 2010. His stories appeared in many magazines, most notably The New Yorker. Between 1951 and 1963 he produced four book-length works of fiction: The Catcher in the Rye; Nine Stories; Franny and Zooey; and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour--An Introduction. The books have been embraced and celebrated throughout the world and have been credited with instilling in many a lifelong love of reading.