{"product_id":"sergeant-salinger-by-jerome-charyn-9780857304711","title":"Sergeant Salinger","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJ.D. Salinger, the mysterious author of \u003cem\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/em\u003e, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn's \u003cem\u003eSergeant Salinger\u003c\/em\u003e presents him as a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers trained with the British.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA rifleman and an interrogator, Salinger witnessed the war's horrors — from the landing on D-Day to the relentless hand-to-hand combat in the hedgerows of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, and finally, the first Allied entry into a Bavarian death camp, where corpses were piled like cordwood. After the war, while interned in a Nuremberg psychiatric clinic, Salinger became enchanted with a suspected Nazi informant. They married, but soon after bringing her home to New York, the marriage collapsed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaladjusted 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, \u003cem\u003eSergeant Salinger\u003c\/em\u003e 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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47341090930924,"sku":"9780857304711","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5972643482493.jpg?v=1772183502","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/sergeant-salinger-by-jerome-charyn-9780857304711","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}