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    "description": "<p>&ldquo;Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons.&rdquo; &mdash;<strong><em>New Yorker</em></strong><br /><br />J.D. Salinger, mysterious author of <em>The Catcher in the Rye</em>, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn&rsquo;s Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war&mdash;from the landing on D-Day to the relentless hand-to-hand combat in the hedgerows of Normandy, to the Battle of the Bulge, and finally to the first Allied entry into a Bavarian death camp, where corpses were piled like cordwood.<br /><br />After the war, interned in a Nuremberg psychiatric clinic, Salinger became enchanted with a suspected Nazi informant. They married, but not long after he brought her home to New York, the marriage collapsed. Maladjusted to civilian life, he lived like a &ldquo;spook,&rdquo; with invisible stripes on his shoulder, the ghosts of the murdered inside his head, and stories to tell.<br /><br />Grounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, <em>Sergeant Salinger</em> is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind a novel that has marked generations.<br /><br /><strong>Jerome Charyn</strong> is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including <em>Cesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin</em>. He lives in New York.</p>",
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