And I read it through, liking it fine if not really loving it. So I decided I'd read "Franny", because it's kind of short. I could continue to the last book ( Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour, an Introduction) but I am gathering that his work seemed to decline in quality as time went on, so perhaps I won't continue. I think some of those stories are very fine. I also read Nine Stories, and reread much of it just a few years ago. Like everyone else of my generation, I was assigned The Catcher in the Rye in high school, and like (it sometimes seems) only a few people, I rather liked it. This is the third Salinger book I've read. For that matter, the two pieces are intimately related, and if you ask me, they work together as a unified whole, and I think it makes a fair amount of sense to call the book a true novel. The two previous books were his only novel ( The Catcher in the Rye) and a story collection ( Nine Stories.) The two parts of Franny and Zooey appeared in the New Yorker in 19.) It's a short book, and is usually described as comprising a short story ("Franny") and a novella ("Zooey".) In fact "Franny" is a longish short story at some 10,000 words by my rough count, and "Zooey" is a very long novella, perhaps 50,000 words. Salinger's third book, published in 1961.
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