Here are some of the initial comments readers made while explaining their votes. 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."įranny & Zooey received very mixed reviews among our group with five thumbs up votes, two so-so votes, and three thumbs down. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous 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. 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. Salinger writes of these works: "FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. As his younger sister, Franny, suffers a spiritual and existential breakdown in her parents' Manhattan living room - leaving Bessie, her mother, deeply concerned - Zooey comes to her aid, offering what he thinks is brotherly love, understanding, and words of sage advice. The novella, Zooey, is named for Zooey Glass, the second-youngest member of the Glass family. The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergraduate who is becoming disenchanted with the selfishness and inauthenticity she perceives all around her. On Thursday, December 17 th, the Fixed on Fiction Book Group met to discuss Franny & Zooey by J.D.
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