Книга: Thomas Beller «J. D. Salinger: The Escape Artist»
Серия: "Icons Series" J. D. Salinger published his first story in The New Yorker at age twenty-nine. Three years later came The Catcher in The Rye, a novel that has sold more than sixty-five million copies and achieved mythic status since its publication in 1951. Subsequent books introduced a new type in contemporary literature: the introspective, hyperarticulate Glass family, whose stage is the Upper East Side. Yet we still know little about Salinger's personal life and less about his character. This was by design. In 1953, determined to escape media attention, Salinger fled to New Hampshire, where he would live until his death in 2010. Even there, privacy proved elusive: a Time cover story; a memoir by Joyce Maynard (who dropped out of Yale as a freshman to move in with him); and a legal battle over an unauthorized biography, which darkened his last decades. Yet he continued to write, and is rumored to have left behind a mass of work that his estate intends to publish. Thomas Beller, a novelist who... Издательство: "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt" (2014) Формат: 150x215, 190 стр.
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Thomas Beller
Thomas Beller (born
Life
Born and raised in
Career
While still studying for his MFA, "
Beller has penned three volumes. The first, "Seduction Theory", a collection of short stories, was published in 1995. "The Sleep-Over Artist", Beller's first novel, was a "
He co-founded the tri-annual literary magazine "Open City" with
Thomas Beller is also the creator of the literary website "Mr. Beller's Neighborhood", a collection of essays, reportage, and vignettes by various authors, including Beller himself. All of the pieces are set in or about Beller's native New York City; the collection has been growing since 2000. The location of each story is marked on a map. In 2002, the site was nominated for a
Bibliography
*"Seduction Theory" (1995)
*"The Sleep-Over Artist" (2000)
*"How to be a Man: Scenes from a Protracted Boyhood" (2005)
External links
* [http://thomasbeller.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.opencity.org/index.html Open City Magazine and Books]
* [http://mrbellersneighborhood.com/ Mr. Beller's Neighborhood]
Источник: Thomas Beller
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