Salinger by David Shields
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Like [b:Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits|4678471|Lowside of the Road A Life of Tom Waits|Barney Hoskyns|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1320546098s/4678471.jpg|4728980], this is probably about as revealing a portrait of a committed recluse as we are going to get. Shields seems to enjoy dissecting his subject with scalpel exactitude: battle-scarred, mortified by his own undescended testicle,
sexually exploitative of star-struck young women, and deep into Vedanta Hindu philosophy. Especially this audiobook version seems particularly awkward in the collage of quotes from Stepehn Ambrose, Joyce Maynard, Salinger's correspondence, etc. Also, Shields goes so far into a litany of assassins that toted a copy
[b:The Catcher in the Rye|5107|The Catcher in the Rye|J.D. Salinger|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1349928703s/5107.jpg|3036731] that it becomes a biographny of that works association with murderers for more time than is appropriate for a biography of person
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