{"product_id":"my-salinger-year-a-memoir-9780307947987","title":"My Salinger Year: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eA keenly observed and irresistibly funny memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow a major motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. Precariously balanced between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office--where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze after three-martini lunches--and then goes home to her threadbare Brooklyn apartment and her socialist boyfriend. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRakoff is tasked with processing Salinger's voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency's form response and impulsively begins writing back. The results are both humorous and moving, as Rakoff, while acting as the great writer's voice, begins to discover her own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307947987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/21\/2015 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Joanna Rakoff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52472740970677,"sku":"9780307947987","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_61277046-70de-4dae-9682-c31dcc5bfffb.jpg?v=1777444243","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/my-salinger-year-a-memoir-9780307947987","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}