FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR AND OTHER STORIES

This is a collection of nine exceptional short stories from the author of The Catcher in the Rye, J D Salinger. The book includes two of Salinger´s most famous and critically acclaimed pieces, which helped to establish him among contemporary literary greats. The title story - a soldier´s recollection of his meeting with a young girl, Esme, before being sent into combat - prompted a flood of readers´ letters when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1950. The haunting, A Perfect Day for Bananafish is the first of the author´s many stories to feature the Glass family and follows eldest sibling, Seymour Glass, and his wife, Muriel, as they honeymoon in Florida.