J. D. Salinger: The End of a Life Veiled in Irony and Mystery

By Jonathan Kirsch

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/j_d_salinger_the_end_of_a_life_veiled_in_irony_and_mystery_39100128/

What remains after the passing of J.D. Salinger at the age of 91 is what we have possessed all along — a small but superb body of work that has never gone out of style or out of print. Indeed, “The Catcher in the Rye” is so thoroughly and uniquely American in its voice and its concerns that it deserves to be called one of the great American novels. Indeed, the case can be made — and has been made — that the social and cultural turmoil that we call the Counterculture may have begun with Holden Caulfield and his contempt for all that is “phony.”

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Comments:	A friend has recommended you read the following from The Jewish Journal... J. D. Salinger: The End of a Life Veiled in Irony and Mystery What remains after the passing of J.D. Salinger at the age of 91 is what we have possessed all along — a small but superb body of work that has never gone out of style or out of print. Indeed, “The Catcher in the Rye” is so thoroughly and uniquely American in its voice and its concerns that it deserves to be called one of the great American novels. Indeed, the case can be made — and has been made — that the social and cultural turmoil that we call the Counterculture may have begun with Holden Caulfield and his contempt for all that is “phony.” http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/j_d_salinger_the_end_of_a_life_veiled_in_irony_and_mystery_39100128/

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