{"product_id":"sergeant-salinger-9781942658825","title":"Sergeant Salinger","description":"\u003cp\u003eA shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combat J.D. Salinger  mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye  is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyns Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps  a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator  he witnessed all the horrors of the warfrom the landing on D-Day to the relentless hand-to-hand combat in the hedgerows of Normandy  to the Battle of the Bulge  and finally to the first Allied entry into a Bavarian death camp  where corpses were piled like cordwood. After the war  interned in a Nuremberg psychiatric clinic  Salinger became enchanted with a suspected Nazi informant. They married  but not long after he brought her home to New York  the marriage collapsed. Maladjusted to civilian life  he lived like a spook  with invisible stripes on his shoulder  the ghosts of the murdered inside his head  and stories to tell. Grounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could  Sergeant Salinger is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind a novel that has marked generations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275910537269,"sku":"ByrdShop_1942658826","price":66.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781942658825.jpg?v=1780517984","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/sergeant-salinger-9781942658825","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}