For Esme - with Love and Squalor

A collection of nine exceptional stories from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye `This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I`m still around, but from here on in, for reasons I`m not at liberty to disclose, I`ve disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me.` This collection of nine stories includes the first appearance of J. D. Salinger`s fictional Glass family, introducing Seymour Glass in the unforgettable `A Perfect Day for Bananafish`. `The most perfectly balanced collection of stories I know` Ann Patchett