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Article: Maynard wrote on Salinger for herself.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 22, 1998
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1/3 Joyce Maynard speaks softly, but carries a big mouth.
So say critics - and they are legion - of Maynard's latest memoir, "At Home in the World," in which she fills roughly one-third of the book's 350 pages with details of her nine-month cohabitation with J.D. Salinger, the notoriously reclusive writer of "Catcher in the Rye." The affair took place 25 years ago, when she was 18 and he was 53.
In the book, Maynard recounts the nine months she spent at Salinger's isolated home in Cornish, N.H. She attempted to follow his spartan diet and share his obsession with homeopathy. She adored him, she writes, but found herself physically unable to have sexual ...