Salinger. But here's what I thought when I read the book: it needed just a little bit more editting. But it's essentially about how her relationship with her father (& mother)effected her. But who cares? Why should poor JD be in more trouble for that than every other parent whose kid isn't Hemingway? I think she wanted him to understand her side of the family dynamics. "Dream Catcher" read like chapters were written at different times by different authors and then interleaved to make it chronological. Pp. Maybe that's a requirement to write one.

Condition: As New. Salinger's daughter, yet if she weren't his daughter, who would care about her story? The tone of the book as Margaret talks about dad gets very dark and ugly by the end. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Please try again. It's even a bit overly scholarly at first (footnotes, analysis of Jewish life in America, etc.) Salinger -- offering a rare look into the man and the myth, what it is like to be his daughter, and the effect of such a charismatic figure on the girls and women closest to him. It's awfully hard to mix the person with the art. Journey into dream with Buried Vapors.Passionate and sensual, revealing and provocative, this engaging story takes you into the heart of Cuban culture before cell phones and wifi. She wrote this before her father died. Fabulous insight into one of my favourite authors in my younger years. She actually wrote about how important being popular in school was to her. In short, I found the book was overly descriptive, painfully lengthy (450 pages, of which almost half were unnecessary!) Paperback. Scribner, 2001. A friend mentioned this book portrayed J.D. I can say that as disturbing as Holden was in Catcher in the Rye the emotions Margaret felt as the daughter of J.D. The tone of the book as Margaret talks about dad gets very dark and ugly by the end. I bought this book a year ago and read it once and haven't touched it in the past thirteen months, so my observations might not be as sound as some others on here.

Book Review: 'Dream Catcher' And that’s not just because Joyce Maynard — another woman wounded by J.D. New Ed. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. If her father's admittedly novelistic autobiography is to be believed (and I think so), his daughter's real life story mirrors it in many ways, how she coped with eccentric parents and peculiar boardinI picked up this book because I thought it might be an interesting biography about a famous recluse. To delve into ho...In her much-anticipated memoir, Margaret A. Salinger writes about life with her famously reclusive father, J.D. Salinger's daughter. A picture of JD Salinger emerges - he becomes a recognizable archetype of everyone's least favorite uncle, with irrational hatreds and pretensions and a chilling inability to relate to children, his wife, or his family. She could have come out of this with a bit less preachiness and more acceptance of who he is while still not ignoring what she missed from him: forgive but not forget. I purchased this book because I saw a television special on the life of J.D. She seems to have forgiven her mother's brutality while shifting to blaming her father for his lack of parenting abilities and his rather esoteric approach to life.

As her mother goes off the rails, her father writes his iconic novels of growing up intelligent and sensitive in a world that's never good enough. Washington Square Press, 2001. The style ranged from engaging to stuffy academic prose. Scribner, 2000.

The memoir begins and ends with the saga of all American Jewry, and finally one family in particular.This man, so fascinated by Asian religions, we are told, was nothing more than an errant Jew ashamed of his heritage. USA Today An unprecedented look at one of the country's most admired and reclusive writers. I loved this memoir.

I even tracked down a copy of a New Yorker with his last "major" work, Hapworth 1924. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Still, there are plenty of personal bits that give us insight into the writer and the man and for that reason I gave this a good rating.