At Home in the World: A Memoir

From the New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day comes At Home in the World, an honest and shocking memoir of falling in love―at age 18―with one of America's most reclusive literary figures, J. D. Salinger. When it was first published in 1998, At Home in the World set off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard's memoir broke a silence concerning her relationship―at age eighteen―with J.D. Salinger, the famously reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, then age fifty-three, who had read a story she wrote for The New York Times in her freshman year of college and sent her a letter that changed her life. Reviewers called her book "shameless" and "powerful" and its author was simultaneously reviled and cheered. With what some have viewed as shocking honesty, Maynard explores her coming of age in an alcoholic family, her mother's dream to mold her into a writer, her self-imposed exile from the world of her peers when she left Yale to live with Salinger, and her struggle to reclaim her sense of self in the crushing aftermath of his dismissal of her not long after her nineteenth birthday. A quarter of a century later―having become a writer, survived the end of her marriage and the deaths of her parents, and with an eighteen-year-old daughter of her own―Maynard pays a visit to the man who broke her heart. The story she tells―of the girl she was and the woman she became―is at once devastating, inspiring, and triumphant.
ASIN: 1250046440
VSKU: DBV.1250046440.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Maynard, Joyce
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!