The war hangs over these wry stories of loss and occasionally unsuppressed rage. Salinger`s children are fragile, odd, hypersmart, whereas his grownups (even the materially content) seem beaten down by circumstances - some neurasthenic, others (often female) deeply unsympathetic. The greatest piece in this disturbing book may be "The Laughing Man," which starts out as a man`s recollection of the pleasures of storytelling and ends with the intersection between adult need and childish innocence.
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