My Salinger Year, De Rakoff, Joanna., Vol. 1. Editorial Vintage, Tapa Blanda En Inglés, 2015

Descripción

A keenly observed and irresistibly funny memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing.

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Después de dejar la escuela de posgrado para perseguir su sueño de convertirse en poeta, Joanna Rakoff toma un trabajo como asistente de la famosa agente literaria de J. D. Salinger.

Equilibrándose precariamente entre la pobreza y el glamour, pasa sus días en una oficina lujosa, donde los dictáfonos y las máquinas de escribir aún reinan, y los agentes se duermen después de almuerzos de tres martinis, y luego regresa a su desgastado apartamento en Brooklyn y su novio socialista.

Rakoff se encarga de procesar la voluminosa correspondencia de fanáticos de Salinger, pero a medida que lee las conmovedoras cartas de todo el mundo, se siente reacia a enviar la respuesta estándar de la agencia y, de manera impulsiva, comienza a responder.

Los resultados son tanto humorísticos como conmovedores, ya que Rakoff, al actuar como la voz del gran escritor, comienza a descubrir la suya propia.

Reseñas:

“A beautifully written tribute to the way things were at the edge of the digital revolution, and to the evergreen power of literature.” -Chicago Tribune

“An affecting coming-of-age memoir. . . . Rakoff wisely-and deftly-weaves her Salinger story into a broader, more universal tale about finding one’s bearings during a pivotal transitional year into real adulthood.” -The Washington Post

“Charming. . . . Glamorous. . . . Rakoff does a marvelous job of capturing a cultural moment. . . . What is most admirable is [her] critical intelligence and generosity of spirit.” -The Boston Globe

“The loneliness of life after college [is] perfectly explained . . . There’s something Salingeresque about her book: it’s a vivid story of innocence lost.” -Entertainment Weekly

“My Salinger Year describes its author’s trip down a metaphorical rabbit hole back in 1996. She not Wonderland is string_containing arrived, but a place something like it, a New York City firm she calls only the Agency. . . . An outright tribute to the enduring power of J.D. Salinger’s work.” -Salon

“A breezy memoir of being a ‘bright young assistant’ in the mid-1990s . . . Salinger himself makes a cameo appearance. . . . The ‘archaic charms’ of the Agency are comically offset by its refusal to acknowledge the Internet age.” -The New York Times Book Review

“While it may be the Salinger cameo that initially draws readers in, it’s Rakoff’s effortlessly elegant, unhyperbolic prose and poignant coming-of-age story that will keep them engrossed through the very last word.” -BookPage

“Moving. . . . Heartfelt. . . . Rakoff uses Salinger-his fan mail and her favorite character, Franny-to help illuminate her inner life. . . . The memoir is touching, and it’s easy to empathize with how Rakoff, like Franny, is ‘trying to figure out how to live in this world.’” -USA Today

“Gentle, funny, closely observed. . . . The special unworldliness of the young literary person, who has reached adulthood without ever knowing or caring much about how the world works, is the real subject of My Salinger Year.” -Tablet Magazine

“Gripping and funny. . . . An involving, evocative tale that will have bookish women everywhere shuddering in recognition. Like Rona Jaffe’s novel of the 50s, The Best of Everything, it is concerned with what it feels like to move to the big city, to take on your first job, and to struggle to survive on a tiny salary when all the while your dreams are seemingly being snuffed out at every turn, and your love life is spiraling into muddle and mayhem. . . . So raw and so true.” -The Guardian

“Hard to put down. . . . Demands sympathy, admiration, and attention. . . . Irresistible.” -The Sunday Times

“Intimate . . . elegant . . . graceful.” -The Sunday Telegraph

“As memoirs go, this is possibly one of the year’s funniest, enthralling and entertaining . . . For an insight into old-fashioned publishing this must be hard to beat. Everyone smokes, returns tiddly from boozy lunches.”