{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoanna Rakoff's novel \u003ci\u003eA Fortunate Age\u003c\/i\u003e won the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers and the \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e Readers' Prize, and was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice and a \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e best seller. She has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times, Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503167541522,"sku":"9780307947987","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_55b7fd49-cc7b-4a8c-8dd9-4810d76635fb.jpg?v=1730784433","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-salinger-year-a-memoir-9780307947987","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}