For Esme: With Love and Squalor

For Esm- With Love and Squalor includes two of Salinger?s most famous and critically acclaimed stories, and helped to establish him as one of the contemporary literary greats. The title story recounts a Sergeants meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat. When it was first published in The New Yorker in 1950 it was an immediate sensation and prompted a flood of readers? fan-letters. ?A Perfect Day for Bananafish? is the first of the author?s stories to feature the Glass family, the loveable and idiosyncratic family who would appear in much of Salingers later fiction. A haunting and unforgettable piece of writing, the story follows the eldest sibling, Seymour Glass, and his wife, Muriel, as they embark on an ill-fated honeymoon in Florida . . .