{"product_id":"sergeant-salinger-9781942658740","title":"Sergeant Salinger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ.D. Salinger, mysterious author of \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn's Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war--from the landing on D-Day to the relentless hand-to-hand combat in the hedgerows of Normandy, to the Battle of the Bulge, and finally to the first Allied entry into a Bavarian death camp, where corpses were piled like cordwood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the war, interned in a Nuremberg psychiatric clinic, Salinger became enchanted with a suspected Nazi informant. They married, but not long after he brought her home to New York, the marriage collapsed. Maladjusted to civilian life, he lived like a \"spook,\" with invisible stripes on his shoulder, the ghosts of the murdered inside his head, and stories to tell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, \u003ci\u003eSergeant Salinger\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind a novel that has marked generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJerome Charyn\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eCesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bellevue Literary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942658740\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Jerome Charyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38024354496693,"sku":"9781942658740","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_fba8710d-d0b0-42de-826e-94a3609678d4.jpg?v=1609187095","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sergeant-salinger-9781942658740","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}