{"product_id":"9781942658740-sergeant-salinger","title":"Sergeant Salinger","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55706359071094,"sku":"9781942658740","price":15.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_15695490_jpg.jpg?v=1748526571","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781942658740-sergeant-salinger","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}