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In the mid1990s, joanna rakoff emerges blinking from the clever bubble of. Is there any significance to the timing of the publication. It was on a gray december day that 23yearold joanna rakoff, nestled into her couch rereading persuasion, received the call that she had gotten the job. Like rona jaffes novel of the 50s, the best of everything a book that rakoff loves and reread before she started work on my salinger year it is concerned with what it feels like to move. Her memoir, my salinger year, is a semifinalist in the 2014 goodreads choice. Rakoffs second book is at once a picture of the new york publishing scene on the eve of the digital age, the personal story of a young writer finding her voice, and a unique profile of j. Keenly observed and irresistibly funny, my salinger year is a memoir about literary new york in the late nineties, a predigital world on the cusp of vanishing. My salinger year is joanna rakoffs account of her first job in a new york publishing agency. Jun 03, 2014 i fell in love with my salinger year like the young joanna rakoff falls in love with the books in itdeeply, with abandon, letting the world fall away. Jun 02, 2014 my salinger year by joanna rakoff bloomsbury circus, 272pp, telegraph offer price. Carole king, joni mitchell, carly simon, and the journey of a generation.