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A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, originally published in the January 31, 1948, issue of The New Yorker. It was anthologized in 1949's 55 Short Stories from The New Yorker , as well as in Salinger's 1953 collection Nine Stories .
"A Fine, Fine Day" is a single released by American singer and keyboardist Tony Carey. It is the opening track on his 1984 album, Some Tough City. The song, written by Carey, spent 15 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #22. [2] The music video was directed by Storm Thorgerson. [3]
Bananafish or banana fish may refer to: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish", a short story by J. D. Salinger; Banana Fish, a manga series by Akimi Yoshida; Bananafish Magazine, an underground culture magazine
Perfektan dan za banana ribe (which got the name from J. D. Salinger's short-story A Perfect Day for Bananafish) was released in 1983 by Sarajevo Disk. The album featured eight songs with the opening track, "Sama" ("Alone") becoming a nationwide hit and appearing on the Svetislav Prelić's Šećerna vodica movie soundtrack.
It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories). The stories are: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut"
The song, in its second verse, contains a literary reference to J. D. Salinger's short story, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish."In the story, the protagonist, who is suicidally depressed, tells a little girl at a Florida beach a story about bananafish, a fictional species of fish that hides in its burrow, eating bananas, until it is trapped inside forever and dies of banana fever. [2]
Will do. One thing is for certain--I still can't understand why someone would delete a summary of the story of the bananafish in A Perfect Day for Bananafish by saying "the story of the fish isn't important". I had to laugh! Jim Steele 04:57, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
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