A collection of nine exceptional stories from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the Rye
An American soldier has a strange encounter with an orphaned English teenager the night before
he leaves for war. A four-year-old boy runs away in a dinghy a missionary's child is kidnapped
by Chinese bandits. A honeymoon in Florida goes awry with tragic consequences. Including the
first stories to feature Salinger's beloved Glass family characters this brilliantly varied
collection offers a vivid introduction to the work of one of the most admired and widely read
American novelists of the twentieth century.
