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Ebook About New York Times bestselling author of Labor DayWith a New PrefaceWhen it was first published in 1998, At Home in the World set off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard's memoir broke a silence concerning her relationship—at age eighteen—with J.D. Salinger, the famously reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, then age fifty-three, who had read a story she wrote for The New York Times in her freshman year of college and sent her a letter that changed her life. Reviewers called her book "shameless" and "powerful" and its author was simultaneously reviled and cheered.With what some have viewed as shocking honesty, Maynard explores her coming of age in an alcoholic family, her mother's dream to mold her into a writer, her self-imposed exile from the world of her peers when she left Yale to live with Salinger, and her struggle to reclaim her sense of self in the crushing aftermath of his dismissal of her not long after her nineteenth birthday. A quarter of a century later—having become a writer, survived the end of her marriage and the deaths of her parents, and with an eighteen-year-old daughter of her own—Maynard pays a visit to the man who broke her heart. The story she tells—of the girl she was and the woman she became—is at once devastating, inspiring, and triumphant.Book At Home in the World: A Memoir Review :
This book was truly captivating, yet I sort of wished I had never read it. There was something too creepy about J.D. Salinger, who came across as a bizarre bore, and something too pathetically naive and needy about Joyce Maynard. Considering her childhood, it was not surprising that the author was thrilled she had supposedly found a soulmate who was much older, a man who happened to be a very famous writer, too. The fact she was anorexic going into the relationship could also explain why she would agree to adhere to her soulmate's incredibly yucky diet, even though she was a teenager.A teenager. Yes, J. D. Salinger liked teenagers. Some of the things mentioned offhand in the story makes one wonder if he wasn’t a downright closet pervert, but didn’t want to be exposed, so he made sure to stick with girls of legal age. When Ms. Maynard first met him, she was wearing a homemade dress that was more suited for a first-grader, than a Yale freshman, complete with the ABCs on it. Plus, starving herself left her built more like a boy than a young woman.In an article she had written for the New York Times in 1972, entitled "An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life", she was christened as a voice of contemporary youths, the voice of those born in 1953. Teenagers who were supposedly made “old” before their time, due to all that went on in the world while they were growing up. That apparently went to Joyce Maynard’s head and she decided to quit Yale, move in with a man old enough to be her father, and spend Saturday nights dancing with him in front of the TV while watching Lawrence Welk. Yes, she was definitely the perfect example of her generation, and getting older by the minute!Besides suffering from anorexia, Ms. Maynard also had an alcoholic father and a controlling mother who had a poor sense of boundaries. Jerry Salinger was a middle-aged author who hadn’t published a book in years, a reclusive man who seemed to dislike and harshly judge most people, a man obviously fixed on controlling Joyce Maynard’s life and thoughts. Or maybe he was just trying to suffocate her. Suffocate her youth, her ambitions, her writing talent, her own thoughts and desires. Maybe the people he didn’t like the most were women.When he finally breaks up with her during a beach vacation, she unfortunately did not have the sense to shout for joy and go order a pizza, with ice cream on top. No, she still clung to the belief that they were destined to be together, have children, and, I guess, dance in front of the TV forever on Saturday nights when Lawrence Welk was on. Only later does she find out she was never special to him, and that there had been other teenage girlfriends he probably said the same sort of garbage to, other girls who clung to him and his weird ways. Girls with low self-esteem, like Ms. Maynard.Well, she then goes on and buys a place out in the country and lives like a little old lady for a while; marries a man closer to her age she hardly knew, a man who instantly proposes that they get married and have children; and has three kids with that man, before they divorce. As it sounds, being a mother saved her, made her a lot smarter, took her outside of the world in her mind. J. D. Salinger would eventually marry a nurse much younger than him. No surprise there. It was like John Updike eventually marrying a woman who was like a mommy and daddy to him. Obviously, women hating writers like to make sure they will be taken care of in their old age . . . by a woman. And isn’t it ironic . . . don’t you think?And thank you, Alanis Morissette, for that question. Talking about Ms. Morissette’s music, it’s too bad Joyce Maynard didn’t pen something like "You Oughta Know" about J. D. Salinger after he broke up with her. But women and the world in the 1970s were very different than women and the world in the 1990s. That’s one thing this book will clearly teach a reader who is not aware of the difference between those two decades . . . although women with low self-esteem and shaky identities really aren’t that much different, regardless of the decades in which they grow up.An’ a one, an’ a two, Alanis . . . . Well written and intriguing. As I have experienced life with a manipulative control freak I was able to ‘see’ the dynamic between JM and JDS as the telling unfolded. I understand that there was outrage expressed and there is continued resentment towards JM for writing this personal memoir. The events are hers to own and tell, in my opinion. If the memoir is to be beloved, and I do believe it, this great man preyed on naive adolescents hungering for love and longing ‘to belong’. 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