Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Salinger Outlived His Legend
It wasn’t hard to see why no one would leap to hang out with him. If I did, it was out of the polite notion that one should finish what one started—in this case a mopey book about a teenage boy. Of course, the reason anyone my age read Salinger in the ’60s was because he was considered slightly racy. Holden swears a lot. He meets a prostitute. He drinks. But he never seems like he has a good time doing any of this. Rereading some of the book recently, I thought Salinger did a fine job of describing the particulars of teenage alienation and frustration, but when I read all that as a teenager, I just remember thinking that this was all stuff I was running from, not anything I wanted to go hunting for in a novel.
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