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Book Review By Laura Fong
Dreamcatcher by Margaret A. Salinger

Margaret A. Salinger divulges the secret eccentricities of her famous father, J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye. The book is a tell-all novel that starts with J.D. Salinger's meeting of the author's mother, and the series of events that took place in the author's life. The novel begins with a tone of almost reverence for her father, with little snatches of confusion over her father's strange quirks. These quirks soon become sources of exasperation for the author as she narrates the story into her teens and early adult life. By the end of the novel, Margaret Salinger makes it clear that all of her father's traits--stubborness, refusal to grasp reality, among other eccentricities--are traits that have caused her much grief and pain. She hopes to exorcise this pain through writing the novel.


Plot & Themes
job/profession:
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Period of greatest activity? - 1950+

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Ethnicity - White
Nationality - American
Unusual characteristics:

Setting
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Century: - 1960's-1970's

Writing Style
Book makes you feel? - thoughtful
If this is a kid's book: - Age 16-Adult
Pictures/Illustrations? - None
How much dialogue in bio? - significantly more descript than dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 51%-75% of book
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