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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 .
Nine Stories is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor".
The Glass family stories also include Franny and Zooey, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, A Perfect Day for Bananafish and Down at the Dinghy, of which the last three are published in the collection Nine Stories. One further Glass family story, Hapworth 16, 1924, is unanthologized.
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In 1948, his critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker, which published much of his later work. [2] [3] The Catcher in the Rye (1951) was an immediate popular success; Salinger's depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence was influential, especially among adolescent readers. [4]
Bananafish or banana fish may refer to: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish", ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
He is the author of the letter that comprises "Hapworth 16, 1924" and is the main character in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish." Seymour was a spiritual savant and brilliant intellectual, and became a professor at Columbia at 20. Along with his siblings he was a regular star on the radio program It's a Wise Child. He fought in the European ...
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