Salinger pursued Scientology, homeopathy and Christian Science. He drank urine, his daughter writes, and sat in an orgone box. Should family and friends respect an author's wish for privacy? Should reading be free from biographical context? Add your thoughts and see what other readers are saying. Or ask your own question about Books, in Abuzz. He spoke in tongues, fasted until he turned greenish and as an older man had pen pal relationships with teenage girls.
After her parents divorced in , her father continued to be part of her life. She stayed with him at times in Cornish.
Does he know about her book? Salinger, because of newspaper articles. Still, "it's not unusual at all to not speak for several months," said Ms. Considering Ms. Salinger's accounts of her childhood and teenage years -- bulimia, "severe perceptual distortions," "panic attacks, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia" -- she seems quite jolly.
Her father loves her, she said, but "he probably hates my guts, too, I would say, operatically. Salinger said she wrote "Dream Catcher" because "I was absolutely determined not to repeat with my son what had been done with me. Salinger, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere, tells a story well, in this case under the special difficulties of casting it in the form of Holden's first- person narrative.
This was a perilous undertaking, but one that has been successfully achieved. Salinger's rendering of teen-age speech is wonderful: the unconscious humor, the repetitions, the slang and profanity, the emphasis, all are just right. Holden's mercurial changes of mood, his stubborn refusal to admit his own sensitiveness and emotions, his cheerful disregard of what is sometimes known as reality are typically and heart breakingly adolescent.
There is one moment that stands out above all, she said. The Salingers have always been secretive, she said. It is embodied in "Catcher in the Rye": "My parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.
From her Aunt Doris, her father's sister who is six years older and in failing health, Ms. Salinger said she learned about her father's childhood as Jerome David Salinger, son of Miriam and Sol Salinger, who became a prosperous food merchant in New York.
He was the center of his mother's life, Ms. Salinger said her aunt told her. But Miriam was also overprotective. Salinger once wrote in a letter to Hemingway that his mother walked him to school until he was 24, Ms. He had always thought his parents were Jewish, Ms. Salinger writes, but when he was a teenager he discovered that they hid from him that his mother was Irish Catholic.
Still, he experienced anti-Semitism, from which he developed his aversion, expressed by his characters, for the Ivy League, for "phonies. He served in the most brutal campaigns of the European theater, including D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge. In in Germany he was hospitalized for "battle fatigue. In one of the book's surprises, Ms. Salinger writes that her father arrested a young Nazi Party functionary, Sylvia, then married her.
The marriage was brief, and forever after he referred to her as Saliva. Salinger's parents met in when Ms. Douglas was about 16 and Mr.
Salinger about 31, at the writer Francis Steegmuller's apartment. Douglas was born in England, the daughter of the art critic and dealer Robert Langton Douglas.
Her stepfather was a partner in Duveen Brothers. At the time Ms. Douglas and Mr. Salinger met, he abstained from sex, her mother told Ms. Salinger, because he was studying with an Indian mystic who taught that it interfered with enlightenment. Salinger quotes from "The Gospels of Sri Ramakrishna," written by the guru's guru. An acolyte announces that he and his wife have had intercourse: "Don't you hate yourself for dallying with a body which contains only blood phlegm, filth and excreta?
Salinger noted that in Mr. Salinger's story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," the character Seymour shoots himself on his honeymoon. Just months before her high school graduation, Ms. Douglas married Mr. Salinger and moved with him to Cornish. Douglas told her daughter that he demanded elaborate meals and that the sheets had to be laundered twice weekly, though there was no heat or hot water.
When her mother became pregnant, Ms. Salinger writes, she had "a suicidal depression when she realized that her pregnancy only repulsed him. He was a playful father who seemed easier in the magic world of childhood. Her imaginary friends were real to him, too, she says, as were the characters in his books.
But, her mother felt "jealousy and rage over my replacement of her in my father's affections. Last month The Sunday Times of London quoted him as saying of his sister: "I guess she's got a lot of anger. But to write a book just isn't right. It's kind of pathetic. Salinger says she does not believe he said it: "I love my brother dearly. She has become very much successful in keeping her personal life away from the spot light.
Unlike her relationships, her father had some good relationship before his death. Jerome is a well known American writer. He is known for his famous novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
Along with being recognized for his profession, he is famous for his relationships. Jerome tied his knot with his first wife, Sylvia Welter , in The exact date of their marriage is still under investigation. However, this relationship ended in just two years in After his first heart break, David married his second wife, Claire Douglas , in The same year, the couple welcomed their first child, Margaret Salinger.
Then after a few years, the love birds were blessed with a son, Matt Salinger. This happy looking relationship ended in The reason for the divorce is still a topic of debate to the media. In addition, He remained single for more than two decades and in , he married his third wife, Colleen O" Neill. The couple lived a happy life until the death of Jerome in Both of his children, Matt and Margaret, were very much close to him and were present at the time of his death.
Margaret Salinger's net worth is still under investigation. Although she tried her luck with acting in with a film, The Up chat Connection, she has an undisclosed net worth like that of Canadian Actress, Marikym Hervieux. Margaret is the sole writer of her father's memorial, Dream Catcher. She published the book in In her book, she mentions that her father was very much supportive of her brother and her even after their parents separated.
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