For Esme-With Love and Squalor, and Other Stories

For Esme-With Love and Squalor, and Other Stories by J D Salinger. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780140237535.

"For Esme With Love and Squalor" includes two of Salingers most famous and critically acclaimed stories, and helped to establish him as one of the contemporary literary greats. The title story recounts a Sergeants meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat. When it was first published in "The New Yorker" in 1950 it was an immediate sensation and prompted a flood of readers fan-letters. A Perfect Day for Bananafish is the first of the authors stories to feature the Glass family, the loveable and idiosyncratic family who would appear in much of Salingers later fiction. A haunting and unforgettable piece of writing, the story follows the eldest sibling, Seymour Glass, and his wife, Muriel, as they embark on an ill-fated honeymoon in Florida.