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The daughter of J. D. Salinger offers a revealing portrait of life with her reclusive father, providing an eloquent study of her complex family relationships. Read more
Publisher : Washington Square Press; First Edition (September 6, 2000)
Language : English
Hardcover : 448 pages
ISBN-10 : 0671042815
ISBN-13 : 13
Item Weight : 0.035 ounces
Dimensions : 6.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #438,093 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,923 in Author Biographies #4,665 in Women's Biographies #12,637 in Memoirs (Books)
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I found this excellent memoir to be a compelling read! I had watched the HBO special about JD Salinger and wanted to know more about his children-Margaret’s telling of her life is very well written with insight about her dysfunctional family and her emergence into her own adulthood.
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2021 by pamela mange
Anyone anticipating that Margaret Salinger inherited her father's writing talent will be disappointed -- however, she is a competent writer and her childhood story is fascinating. Her memories of her childhood experiences are so different from those of her younger brother that gender seems to have played a large role in the way their father related to them. Her story is the timeless one creating sympathy for geniuses and the families that surround them.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2014 by KSreader
Peggy Salinger, who is J D Salinger's daughter, holds nothing back in this tell-all tale about her dysfunctional family. Well, most of them anyway. She has nothing particularly bad to say about her younger brother, the actor Matthew Salinger. Her mom doesn't fare too well, but her famous and reclusive father is portrayed as an insensitive, self-centered kind of monster. Which, I have to say, didn't really surprise me all that much. Because I did struggle through Franny and Zooey, as well as the other book, Raise High ... and Seymour ... back when I was in college. Those two books kinda left me thinking, "Huh? Is this the same guy that wrote Catcher in the Rye and Nine Stories?" Because they are so dense and strange as to be nearly unreadable, as far as I was concerned. But I kept on trying to understand the guy who'd created Holden Caulfield. I even tracked down a copy of a New Yorker with his last "major" work, Hapworth 1924. It was awful - just an incoherent rant, as far as I could tell. I wish I'd stopped after Catcher and the Nine Stories book, but I didn't. So I always wondered about Salinger. What I hadn't known, and learned from Peggy's memoir, was that her father landed on Omaha Beach on D-day and fought his way across much of Europe, had a mental breakdown near the end of the war and was briefly hospitalized, but managed to talk his way out of that and got a normal discharge. He was, in short a decorated WWII veteran. But he came home from the war a damaged and shaken man, judging from those later things he wrote - and from what his daughter reports about him and his strange behavior, not just as an author, but as a husband and a parent. He was abusive and tyrannical to all of the women in his life, and seemed to be most attracted to young, innocent, virginal schoolgirl types. (Think Brittany Spears' first video here.) Once that blush of innocence was gone, Salinger had very little use for his women, and showed his true colors - and showed the women the door. In short, J D Salinger is just not a very nice man. Peggy's own story is a sad one of neglect and emotional abuse. She experimented with drugs and was sexually active from her early teens as she was shunted about between boarding schools and sought shelter with friends' families when her own parents were too busy to bother with her, which was most of the time. She had several boyfriends and affairs as a teenager and young woman and ended up with a grab bag of health problems later on. And yet she managed to graduate with highest honors from college in her mid-twenties and spent a few years at Oxford. There is much to admire about Margaret Salinger, and also much to pity her for. But most of all I have to respect her for telling her story. One of the things that intrigued me most about this book was finding out about all the other J D Salinger stories that have never been published in book form - many of them never at all. And from what Peggy says about them, I think I'd like to read them. They sound gentler, more human, than the ones I have read. If Salinger fans are interested in reading some of these stories they can be found at a website called [...]. But, I've babbled on long enough. This is a good if perhaps a bit painful read. Bravo, Peggy. Be well and live your life. Finally, while Salinger may be an ogre, Holden Caulfield will always remain one of my favorite fictional characters. - Tim Bazzett, author of SOLDIER BOY: AT PLAY IN THE ASA
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Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2009 by Timothy J. Bazzett
I purchased this book because I saw a television special on the life of J.D. Salinger and I re-read The Catcher In The Rye. He was a very private intriguing kind of person and I wanted to read what it was like for his daughter growing up in his hidden environment in the woods of NH.
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2017 by Julie S.
"Dream Catcher" read like chapters were written at different times by different authors and then interleaved to make it chronological. The style ranged from engaging to stuffy academic prose. At times, the story was hard to stay with, but worth sticking it out. It was interesting when the excerpts from JDS's books were tied to the author's personal experience. But which came first? Did she emulate her father's books or did JDS model his characters after her issues? I never was a fan of JDS's books. Now I know why. He was selfish and so were his characters. Hooray for Margaret for surviving and eventually thriving. Obviously brilliant, maybe her father kept her at bay because the comparison to his daughter would diminish his self image. Thank goodness for the closing chapters when her extended family came forth to explain JDS (as much as he could be explained (not excused, just explained) and to support Margaret. But where were they while she floundered as a teen, young adult and adult? Surely, they knew or her mother knew what was happening to her and that there were relatives (of means and influence) who could help her. A strange family. As Margaret prayed, may her children shine in the love of her cousins, aunts and uncles .
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Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2013 by Martha Anne King
A compelling and beautifully written story of a life. It is so full and rich and satisfying. I loved this memoir. Salinger is so honest and described her life in fascinating detail. Who of us remembers much about grade school? Still, I relived so much of my experiences as she shared hers. All the people come through in vivid detail. That her friendships made such a difference in every phase of her life echoed for me with my own life. I literally couldn't put this book down. I feel I know her, appreciate her and wish we'd actually meet. I truly cannot understand why she didn't get a 5-star rating from every reader
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Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2002 by Judy T
J.D. Salinger has always been one of my favorite writers, since I first read all his published work in my early teens. This book by Peggy, his only daughter, sheds a lot of light, some unflattering, on her father's reclusive and strange existence. As a woman just a few years older than Peggy is, and with lots of father issues of my own, I found this book fascinating. I would recommend it.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2011 by P. Parris