JD Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye
Harriet Gilbert discusses JD Salinger's 1951 classic novel The Catcher in the Rye in New York's Algonquin Hotel.
Harriet Gilbert discusses JD Salinger's classic novel The Catcher in the Rye with a studio audience, including questions from Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service listeners as far afield as Nepal and the Czech Republic. She's in New York's Algonquin Hotel, long-time hangout of our reclusive writer, and answers your questions with the help of authors David Gilbert and Joanna Rakoff. JD Salinger wrote the book in 1951, and died in 2010.
(Photo: JD Salinger)
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