15 October 2012

For Elizabeth

Coming soon to a bookshelf near you:
"Iowa grad Mary O'Connell's first adult novel, IN THE RYE, wherein Holden Caulfield steps out of the pages of the The Catcher in the Rye and into the life of a high school senior searching Manhattan for her missing American lit teacher who has always regarded Salinger's classic novel as a book of revelations and a roadmap of sorts, to Amy Einhorn at Amy Einhorn Books, in a pre-empt, by Lisa Bankoff at ICM (world)."
I assume this will solve what happened to the English teacher we studied CATCHER IN THE RYE under, who held a similar worldview and who afterward taught no more at our high school.

3 comments:

D.H. Sayer said...

'The F? Remember when some thought we would get all the unpublished stuff in Salinger's safe after he died? Instead: This.

Ellen said...

Plus the estate spent so much legal muscle shooting down a sequel... but this is all right with them?

D.H. Sayer said...

I bet if Salinger were still alive, there would be some kind of legal action.