Franny and Zooey (J. D. Salinger)

Dana Mosevics

“Franny and Zooey is about what happens when intelligence, sensitivity and disgust with phoniness become almost unbearable. It is funny, strange and spiritually serious without being sentimental, and Salinger understands the particular loneliness of people who can see through everything but still need something to believe in.”

claudia

“the first salinger i’ve read besides catcher in the rye. some will favor one section over the other. exploration of ego, superficiality, religion, knowledge”

even*cleveland

“This is a deeply irritating book to read until it isn’t. The style is the irritant—it is so much—and its dazzle wards you off, tests your patience, rubs you raw. And then, when you have reached the point of exasperation and exhaustion, that is when Salinger gets you; at least, he gets me—it feels like he stands there and opens a door into this other room of meaning and gestures to it, and you catc”