"Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses.I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life. I still treasure it and I don't think I've read anything since that has affected me and inspired me as much, both as a reader and a writer." Salinger, Franny and Zooey 3033 likes Like I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect. " Franny and Zooey is one of the few books that I've returned to every year.I love it for its comedy-Salinger's dialogue is wonderful-for its mocking fondness, and as a portrait of a troubled, loving family. Salinger 211,081 ratings, 3.97 average rating, 8,985 reviews Open Preview Franny and Zooey Quotes Showing 1-30 of 317 I'm sick of just liking people. Salinger's stories will decidedly continue to widen the range of contemporary reading." "You can see Salinger's increasing mastery on page after page.If the world survives, as it shows a magnificently stubborn intention of doing, Mr. Janet Malcolm, New York Review of Books "Brilliant.What makes reading Salinger such a consistently bracing experience is our sense of always being in the presence of something that-whatever it is-isn't fishy."
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