Franny

Always in search of good novellas for book group read I think for first time j d salinger's Franny which appeared on fellow bloggers reading the short story list of novellas and - is it really that great? A college couple starting an ivy league football weekend and it becomes increasingly evident that they are completely incompatible she Franny trying to articulate her fears and yearlings why she's given up acting the sense that everyone she knows is phony a sham echoes here of Holden caulfield? But in this case without the youthful energy and enmity more a freefloating anxiety just a troubled rich kid who most likely will end up just like those she loathed she doesn't seem to have the suicidal depravity of the glass character in bananafish. And her date lane picks up none of her desperate messages so full of himself a lot of potential here but you can already see Salinger starting to succumb to the pressure of fame sketching it out phoning it in soon to stop altogether.

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