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Twenty-three-year old Joanna Rakoff moved to New York City, taking a job as assistant to the literary agent for J. D. Salinger. Spending her days in the old-fashioned, wood-panelled agency and returning at night to a threadbare Brooklyn apartment, Rakoff precariously balances between glamour and poverty. Tasked with answering Salinger’s fan mail, she finds herself unable to type the agency’s formulaic response and begins writing back.
My Salinger Year is a poignant, keenly observed and irresistibly funny memoir about a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing. It is the coming-of-age story of a talented writer and testament to the power of books to shape our lives.
‘Extraordinary… The book is so gripping and funny, you feel sure she had only to twitch her nose to be back there’ Observer
‘In prose that is clear, precise and evocative, Rakoff renders her people and places touchably real’ Independent
‘Like a literary The Devil Wears Prada, this is the story of Joanna Rakoff’s first job in publishing in the ‘80s… an irresistible read’ Harper’s Bazaar
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First published in 2009 in the US by Scribner, New York
First published in Great Britain 2015
© Joanna Rakoff 2009
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ISBN: HB: 978-1-4088-6239-1
TPB: 978-1-4088-6241-4
ePub: 978-1-4088-6240-7
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