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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is one of Salinger's best. I absolutely love his stories about the Glass family. Seymour and Franny are my favorites. (  ) Anagarika | Nov 3, 2009 |  Franny and Zooey are sister and brother, who grew up in quite a large, educated and eccentric family. The two chapter story pivots around Franny's interest in a religious book that she found in her elder brothers' room, the 'Jesus Prayer' that she is saying and her near nervous breakdown. I loved chapter one of this book and even though chapter two focused largely on religion it was still interesting. The further explanation about the use of theatre in the novel, as described in the Yale lecture was also thought provoking. (  ) eesti23 | Oct 23, 2009 | A friend's daughter, a prolific reader and 13-year-old, read "Catcher in the Rye" and immediately checked out the rest of Salinger from the library. "Franny and Zooey" is on her top 10 favorites of all time. And with Salinger in the news, I finally picked up this book. While I still prefer "Catcher," I liked this one too. I hope he has a safe full of manuscripts! ( ) mthelibrarian | Aug 17, 2009 | This is without a doubt one of the most enjoyable books I've had the pleasure to read. I can't quite put my finger on what made it so wonderful but I couldn't put it down and after finishing I wanted to read it for the first time all over again! A friend asked me after reading 'For Esme, with love and squalor' if there was anything else out there of a similar type and all I could say was, read 'Franny and Zooey' because there really is nothing out there like Salinger. ( ) Lynne_M | Aug 2, 2009 | The best of JD I think is this book. I have read this book so much it has become personal. I think once in a while you find a book that captures your life's essence, your mythologies and sentimentalities all in one book. This book does this for me. ( ) irisrose | Jul 29, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0316769029, Paperback)The author writes: Franny came out in The New Yorker/EM Zooey. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambitious one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:56 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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