Franny And Zooey
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Franny and Zooey is a two-part work of modern literary fiction, comprising a short story and a novella united by their focus on the brilliant, spiritually tormented Glass family. The story opens with Franny Glass in the grip of a nervous breakdown, clutching a copy of The Way of a Pilgrim and railing against the phoniness and ego she sees consuming the world around her. Her brother Zooey — sharp-tongued, deeply perceptive, and wrestling with his own existential restlessness — attempts to pull her back from the brink in a series of charged, intimate conversations. Salinger writes with a razor wit and profound spiritual sincerity, weaving Eastern philosophy and Christian mysticism into the fabric of a quintessentially American family portrait. The result is a quietly devastating meditation on faith, identity, and the unbearable weight of intelligence in a world that seems unworthy of it.
Author: J.D. Salinger
Format: Paperback
Published: 1964, Penguin Books
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Franny and Zooey is a two-part work of modern literary fiction, comprising a short story and a novella united by their focus on the brilliant, spiritually tormented Glass family. The story opens with Franny Glass in the grip of a nervous breakdown, clutching a copy of The Way of a Pilgrim and railing against the phoniness and ego she sees consuming the world around her. Her brother Zooey — sharp-tongued, deeply perceptive, and wrestling with his own existential restlessness — attempts to pull her back from the brink in a series of charged, intimate conversations. Salinger writes with a razor wit and profound spiritual sincerity, weaving Eastern philosophy and Christian mysticism into the fabric of a quintessentially American family portrait. The result is a quietly devastating meditation on faith, identity, and the unbearable weight of intelligence in a world that seems unworthy of it.