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Salinger, J. D.

Franny and Zooey

Though brilliantly sunny, Saturday morning was overcast weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyone had hoped it would stay for the big weekend — the weekend of the Yale game.

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters

One night some twenty years ago, during a siege of mumps in our enormous family, my youngest sister, Franny, was moved, crib and all, into the ostensibly germ-free room I shared with my eldest brother, Seymour.

Seymour an Introduction

The actors by their presence always convince me, to my horror, that most of what I've written about them until now is false.

A Perfect Day for Bananafish

There were ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl in 507 had to wait from noon till almost two-thirty to get her call through.

Zabhegyező

Hát ha tényleg kíváncsi vagy rá, először biztos azt szeretnéd tudni, hogy hol születtem, meg hogy milyen volt az én egész tetű gyerekkorom, meg hogy mik voltak a szüleim, meg minden, szóval hogy egy ilyen Copperfield Dávid-féle marhaságot adjak le, de ehhez nincs kedvem.

(hungarian translation by Gyepes Judit)

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