My Salinger Year (No. 66) by Joanna Rakoff

In the freezing winter of 1996 Joanna Rakoff, aged 24, moved to New York and landed her first job as assistant at one of the city’s oldest and most distinguished literary agencies.

No matter that she didn’t even know what a literary agent was and had lied about her typing speed. She’d also led her parents to believe she was living with a female college friend when she was in fact sharing an unheated Brooklyn apartment with a penniless and unpublished Marxist novelist whose sole and very part-time job was watering the plants at Goldman Sachs. And so the scene is set for this delicious account of the year our green-as-grass heroine spends at The Agency, and of her unusual relationship with its best-known author . . .

ISBN: 9781910898895
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 170 x 110mm
Publication date: 1 March 2024
Producer: Smith Settle
Genre: Memoir
Trimmings: Coloured endpapers; silk ribbon, head- & tailband; gold blocking to spine; blind blocking to front
NB: Hand-numbered limited edition of 2,000
Preface: Frances Donnelly
Number in SFE series: 66
Pages: 224
Genre: Memoir
Binding: Cloth hardback
Trimmings: Coloured endpapers; silk ribbon, head- & tailband; gold blocking to spine; blind blocking to front
Preface: Frances Donnelly
Made in Britain