{"product_id":"my-salinger-year-9780307958006","title":"My Salinger Year","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoignant  keenly observed  and irresistibly funny: a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties  a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing  where a young woman finds herself entangled with one of the last great figures of the century.  At twenty-three  after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet  Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in a plush  wood-paneled office  where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-time agents doze at their desks after martini lunches. At night she goes home to the tiny  threadbare Williamsburg apartment she shares with her socialist boyfriend. Precariously balanced between glamour and poverty  surrounded by titanic personalities  and struggling to trust her own artistic instinct  Rakoff is tasked with answering Salingers voluminous fan mail. But as she reads the candid  heart-wrenching letters from his readers around the world  she finds herself unable to type out the agencys decades-old form response. Instead  drawn inexorably into the emotional world of Salingers devotees  she abandons the template and begins writing back. Over the course of the year  she finds her own voice by acting as Salingers  on her own dangerous and liberating terms.  Rakoff paints a vibrant portrait of a bright  hungry young woman navigating a heady and longed-for world  trying to square romantic aspirations with burgeoning self-awareness  the idea of a life with life itself. Charming and deeply moving  filled with electrifying glimpses of an American literary icon  My Salinger Year is the coming-of-age story of a talented writer. Above all  it is a testament to the universal power of books to shape our lives and awaken our true selves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789851615285,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307958000","price":30.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307958006.jpg?v=1784700685","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/my-salinger-year-9780307958006","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}