{"product_id":"2026200015205-secondhand-franny-and-zooey","title":"Franny And Zooey","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First Edition Thus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Price clipped, chipping and spotting to DJ, minor foxing to page edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the stifling world of mid-century New York intellectualism, a young woman named Franny Glass is quietly unraveling — not from heartbreak or ambition, but from a profound and consuming spiritual crisis that threatens to swallow her whole. J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey presents two interconnected narratives: the first chronicles Franny's breakdown during a lunch date with her Ivy League boyfriend, clutching a slim religious text called The Way of a Pilgrim; the second details the urgent, brilliantly combative conversation between Franny and her older brother Zooey, an actor of sharp wit and sharper tongue, as he attempts to pull her back from the edge of existential collapse.\n\nSalinger constructs his world through razor-sharp dialogue and deeply interior characterisation, immersing the reader in the claustrophobic warmth of the Glass family apartment with the precision of a playwright and the sensitivity of a poet. The novel argues, with quiet ferocity, that the search for spiritual authenticity in a world of phonies and mediocrity is not merely a personal struggle but a universal human condition — a theme that resonates as powerfully today as it did upon its publication in 1961. Rich with Eastern philosophy, Christian mysticism, and the particular anguish of being both gifted and disillusioned, this is a work that will leave you questioning whether enlightenment and despair are truly so very different from one another.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203181846747,"sku":"2026200015205-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/34d4a54b-c467-4e4e-b1cd-60653008a961.png?v=1788145072","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015205-secondhand-franny-and-zooey","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}