Joanna Rakoff’s novel A Fortunate Age won the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers and the Elle Readers’ Prize, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a San Francisco Chronicle best seller. A fun and light hearted read about Joanna, who leaves her degree program and her college boyfriend, and finds a job with a literary agent. May 12, 2015 Download full My Salinger Year books PDF, EPUB, Tuebl, Textbook, Mobi or read online My Salinger Year anytime and anywhere on any device. Following the death of J.D. via the U.S. Although she expects to find herself busy reading manuscripts, she instead finds herself typing letters on a typewriter and answering phones. “My Salinger Year” (M) *** and a half DIRECTED by Canadian Philippe Falardeau, who also co-wrote the screenplay in conjunction with Joanna Smith Rakoff, who wrote a novel about the New York book-publication community in the late 1990s. My Salinger Year is a book that Ms. Rakoff, who mostly writes fiction and journalistic essays, had been asked to write for years. Keenly observed and irresistibly funny, My Salinger Year is a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing. While it's autobiographical, it is written in a very novelistic style. But there were times when I thought this book was really less about her self discovery as a young person, and more about her expelling an arsenal of evidence against her boyfriend of the time--how she had increasingly frequent realizations that he was weak, unsupportive, and inconsistent in an ideology he clung to a little too long. | ISBN 9780307947987 The results are both humorous and moving, as Rakoff, while acting as the great writer’s voice, begins to discover her own. is just a voice at the other end of the phone (he does, though, make one single appearance) but the book is about much more than just that: life, being young, broke, shy, bright, being in new York in a special place at that special time when nothing is making sense yet but everything is about to come together. The ‘archaic charms’ of the Agency are comically offset by its refusal to acknowledge the Internet age.” —The New York Times Book Review“While it may be the Salinger cameo that initially draws readers in, it’s Rakoff’s effortlessly elegant, unhyperbolic prose and poignant coming-of-age story that will keep them engrossed through the very last word.” —BookPage    “Moving. There’s something Salingeresque about her book: it’s a vivid story of innocence lost.” —Entertainment Weekly“My Salinger Year describes its author’s trip down a metaphorical rabbit hole back in 1996. In the winsome and meticulously observed My Salinger Year, Rakoff recounts her experiences as an earlier-era Lena Dunham-creation, complete with a ratty Brooklyn apartment, strident anti-establishment boyfriend, and big, big dreams. So when I spotted this book and sensed an opportunity to learn more about the famously reclusive author it was a no-brainer for me, I had to read it. . Sigourney Weaver in “My Salinger Year”… delivers a subtle portrayal of a woman skilled in all the tricks of the publishing trade. It was very rhythmic and heart felt. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. . June 3rd 2014 elegant . It's 1996, and the Agency (as it is always c (3.5) First of all: this is a memoir. (micro_scope) Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year (Bloomsbury, 2014) is all a whirl. . She spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-time agents doze at their desks after martini lunches. I loved the writing style Joanna Rakoff used to share a year in her life working as an assistant at a literary agency in New York. Her book, on which the film of the same name is based and which opened the Berlin Film Festival, came out of her experience of being that girl who comes to New York. Share Via. . Her memoir, My Salinger Year, is a semifinalist in the 2014 GoodReads Choice Awards! The time is 1996 and businesses are learning to adopt the technology of the new information age. In a way, I was right. I’ve read Catcher in the Rye several times, though not for a dozen or so years. That's one of the reasons I found Joanna Rakoff's My Salinger Year so refreshing. The costume and set design are delightful and work to heighten the nostalgic 1990s atmosphere, skilfully reinforcing the theme of an analogue world about to be overthrown by the digital age. The word that keeps emerging is "elegant" but that doesn't do the book justice, though it does describe both the beauty of the prose and the economy of the story-telling. A coming of age story. An outright tribute to the enduring power of J.D. Call 0844 871 1515 or see books.telegraph.co.uk graceful.” —The Sunday Telegraph “As memoirs go, this is possibly one of the year’s funniest, enthralling and entertaining . (3.5) First of all: this is a memoir. . I loved it all. . . This is the real story of Joanna Rakoff who worked for a year at the literary agency that represented J.D. Probably because I expected something different, something less 'Sex in the City at a literay agency'. I'm not a big Salinger fan so when Joanne Rakoff came to speak at a local bookstore I decided to skip it. You've read this book before. Refresh and try again. Joanna Rakoff's novel A Fortunate Age won the Goldberg Prize for Fiction, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice, an Elle and Booklist Best Book of 2009, and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller. I had such high hopes for this book, reading all the praise on goodreads, from readers whose opinion I value. . My Salinger Year looks beautiful – until reading the credits, this reviewer didn’t realise it was shot in Montreal rather than in New York. . For, dear readers, this is an exquisite, brilliant, an. This might seem like a fairly obvious fact given that the blurb clearly says it's a memoir, but somehow, until I read the author's introduction, I remained convinced that it was at least partly a fictionalised version of reality. by Knopf. Rakoff wisely—and deftly—weaves her Salinger story into a broader, more universal tale about finding one’s bearings during a pivotal transitional year into real adulthood.” —The Washington Post“Charming. Salinger and his work. Demands sympathy, admiration, and attention. Like Rona Jaffe’s novel of the 50s, The Best of Everything, it is concerned with what it feels like to move to the big city, to take on your first job, and to struggle to survive on a tiny salary when all the while your dreams are seemingly being snuffed out at every turn, and your love life is spiraling into muddle and mayhem. We cannot guarantee that every book … As it happens, this girl got to talk to J.D. I did enjoy reading this book --It's set in NYC about the time I moved to NYC the first time (give or take a five years) and I took the same train, knew the same spots, recognized the same people, same lofts, same parties, same bars. Simply called "The Agency, this is the agency that represents Salinger. . There was no real connection to those people, at least for me. Vivid, precise, utterly absorbing. It knocks spots off The Devil Wears Prada.” —The Sydney Morning Herald “Lures you in. About My Salinger Year. Something that did not involve her boyfriend, Salinger, nor her job. I was looking forward to reflections on Salinger's work but all I got was gossip. . Salinger. [6] [7] [8] It was picked by Rachel Cooke as one of the best books of 2014. I loved the descriptions of the venerable agency's refusal to enter the digital age; I loved Joanna's vulnerability and youth; I love the descriptions of New York in the 1990s; I loved her awful, fake-Communist, arrogant boyfriend; I love imagining a boss smoking cigarettes in her large office; I love the way Salinger is at the edges of Joanna's story, and also central to it in this very sly and meaningful way. For the protagonist J.D.S. Twists, turns, red herrings, the usual suspects: These books have it all...and more. I loved the descriptions of the venerable agency's refusal to enter the digital age; I loved Joanna's vulnerability and youth; I love the descriptions of New York in the 1990s; I loved her awful, fake-Communist, arrogant boyfriend; I love imagining a boss smoking cigarettes in her large office; I love the way Salinger is at the edges of Joanna's story, and also centr. Although she expects to find herself busy reading manuscripts, she instead finds herself typing letters on a typewriter and answering phones. . But there were times when I thought this book was really less about her self discovery as a young person, and more about her expelling an arsenal of evidence against her boyfriend of the time--how sh. . For the protagonist J.D.S. Download My Salinger Year Book PDF. A great read. I listened to the book as an audiobook; the narrator was the author; she did a really good job. Salinger a few times, which would have been interesting if more of the book was actually about dear Jerry and less about the sandwiches Rakoff had for lunch in the mid-90s. Salinger was such a phenomenon…”because the experience of reading a Salinger story is less than reading a short story and more like having Salinger himself whisper his accounts into your year.”. Brutal and funny and precise. Welcome back. Keenly observed and irresistibly funny, My Salinger Year is a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing. Loved it. . It may not be the page-turning, stay-up-all-night-to-finish story, but Joanna Rakoff's writing draws me into her world in a rare soothing way, like how cuddling up with a blanket in front of a fireplace during a New York winter would be like. It is amusing to read how delighted they are when a copier is finally delivered and they no longer need to use carbon paper. If you were young once but forgot what it's like to be overwhelmed by the force of your own dreams, read this book. . DAMN!!! Precariously balanced between glamour and poverty, surrounded by titanic personalities, and struggling to trust her own artistic instinct, Rakoff is tasked with answering Salinger’s voluminous fan mail. Precariously balanced between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office—where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze after three-martini lunches—and then goes home to her threadbare Brooklyn apartment and her socialist boyfriend. Buy. I read it on ebook from my library on overdrive. But I just didnt like it. To see what your friends thought of this book. Heartfelt. His presence/absence looms through most of this slim book. . This is a novelized coming-of-age memoir of a twenty-four year old, fresh out of grad school, and landing her first job with a New York literary agency. Book My Salinger Year sessions at a Palace Cinema location near you. Nothing. Because, you see, I keep crying at odd moments.”, http://www.randomhouse.com/book/215730/my-salinger-year-by-joanna-rakoff, Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2014), See all 3 questions about My Salinger Year…, 36 of the Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2021. From the Chicago Tribune : “Her memoir is a beautifully written tribute to the way things were at the edge of the digital revolution, and also to the evergreen power of literature to guide us through all of life’s transitions.” . Joanna Smith Rakoff’s My Salinger Year is ostensibly about finding your way as a young adult and what it really means to be on your own for the first time; but it’s really about Manhattan at the brink of the internet age, the disappointments of love, the joys of reading, the perils of ambition, phonies (of course it’s about phonies! My Salinger Year review – bafflingly insipid Berlin opener clunks hard 1 / 5 stars 1 out of 5 stars. It was the late ‘90s when writer-to-be Joanna Rakoff got her first job in New York publishing as an assistant to the woman who represented the great reclusive author J.D. This memoir became Rakoff's second book, entitled My Salinger Year it was published in 2014 to broad critical acclaim. I did enjoy reading this book --It's set in NYC about the time I moved to NYC the first time (give or take a five years) and I took the same train, knew the same spots, recognized the same people, same lofts, same parties, same bars. . . Instead, drawn inexorably into the emotional world of Salinger’s devotees, she abandons the template and begins writing back. The tie to Salinger seemed somewhat thin and stretched, and while that is not why I read the book, it seems as though it's use as the narrative arc was forced. . whats-on, movies, My Salinger Year, film, movies, Joanna Smith Rakoff In her early 20s, the young woman who would become New York Times contributor Joanna Smith Rakoff took a job with a … Soon to be a major motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley. . French-Canadian screenwriter and director Philippe Falardeau discovered Joanna Rakoff's memoir while browsing at a bookstore. is just a voice at the other end of the phone (he does, though, make one single appearance) but the book is about much more than just that: life, being young, broke, shy, bright, being in new York in a special place at that special time when nothing is making sense yet but everything is. Glamorous. However, there's no new technology at the office of "the Agency" where she is employed. The special unworldliness of the young literary person, who has reached adulthood without ever knowing or caring much about how the world works, is the real subject of My Salinger Year.” —Tablet Magazine  “Gripping and funny. The memoir is touching, and it’s easy to empathize with how Rakoff, like Franny, is ‘trying to figure out how to live in this world.’”  —USA Today “Gentle, funny, closely observed. . It is a very simple book, and I'm sure that not everyone is going to love its simplicity as much as I did. Salinger a few times, which would have been interesting if more of the b. She moves into an apartment with a new boyfriend, Don. Rakoff paints a vibrant portrait of a bright, hungry young woman navigating a heady and longed-for world, trying to square romantic aspirations with burgeoning self-awareness, the idea of a life with life itself. “We all have to start somewhere,” is how Rakoff begins her story of being young, gifted, and possessed of a coveted “editorial assistant” job that her parents (my parents, your parents, everyone’s parents) would call “secretary.” While it’s true that J.D. . Rakoff uses Salinger—his fan mail and her favorite character, Franny—to help illuminate her inner life. A still from My Salinger Year Photo: micro_scope; the cover of Rakoff’s 2014 book. The much-anticipated new film by Academy Award®-nominated writer/director Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar), MY SALINGER YEAR unites three-time Oscar®-nominee Sigourney Weaver and radiant new talent Margaret Qualley (Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood) for a hugely enjoyable adaptation of Joanna Rakoff’s internationally … (Okay, so that last bit still holds true.) Charming and deeply moving, filled with electrifying glimpses of an American literary icon, My Salinger Year is the coming-of-age story of a talented writer. Oh, I am skimpy with 5 star reviews and I am not a big memoir reader. MY SALINGER YEAR ★★★★ M, 101 minutes, in cinemas January 14. At her office there are no computers, everything is typed on the IBM Selectric, and the Dictaphone is used by her boss. For an insight into old-fashioned publishing this must be hard to beat. She has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vogue,… More about Joanna Rakoff, “A beautifully written tribute to the way things were at the edge of the digital revolution, and to the evergreen power of literature.” —Chicago Tribune“An affecting coming-of-age memoir. ), Loved it. If I had a category for Most Charming Read of the Year, there would be one entrant for 2014: I'm rating this book 5 stars well-aware that this book is not for everyone, which actually makes it a weird 5 stars for me. Although this is the mid nineties, the office, or least her boss, defies technological advances in favor of the archaic way the agency has always r. A fun and light hearted read about Joanna, who leaves her degree program and her college boyfriend, and finds a job with a literary agent. Postal Service, and starry-eyed ambitious young people moved to New York to try their luck in the literary world. A Literary Master Class From George Saunders, Staff Picks From Tara Singh Carlson, Executive Editor at G.P. . . . But I was so caught up in this book. Rakoff’s second book (after A Fortunate Age) ... My Salinger Year Joanna Rakoff. . . “Salinger was nothing like I'd thought. Although I've never experienced either winter at home, a fireplace warmth, or even New York. . As it happens, this girl got to talk to J.D. Born in 1919, Salinger is best known for his only novel, The Catcher in the Rye, published in 1951. What is most admirable is [her] critical intelligence and generosity of spirit.” —The Boston Globe“The loneliness of life after college [is] perfectly explained . Twenty-something girl from a privileged background (with an expensive but mostly useless private school degree) heads off to the Big Bad Apple, where she struggles with performing the basic functions of her practically unpaid but oh so glamorous job, realizing that her shitty boyfriend is shitty, and ruining her fancy shoes on the cold, hard streets. ( Supplied: Palace …