Until Salinger retreated completely into his bolt-hole outside Cornish in New Hampshire many aspects of his life, though it required assiduousness on the biographer's part, could be pieced together.Ī surprising portrait emerges although there were early signs of renunciation, there were moments when his behaviour could almost be described as gregarious. For someone whose guarding of his privacy became so fanatical it is perhaps surprising how much Ian Hamilton was able to disinter about his earlier life. With great enterprise and determination however, Ian Hamilton set to and wrote this book which is more, much more, than an emasculated version of the first. Salinger objected to the use of his letters, in the end to any use of them. Salinger: A Writing Life, despite undergoing many changes to accommodate Salinger, was still victim of a legal ban. Hamilton and Don Swaim talk about Salinger's famous novel, The Catcher in the Rye and Salinger's other works. Salinger, a biography about the reclusive writer. In this June 3rd, 1988 interview, Ian Hamilton discusses his book, In Search of J.
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