Article: THE ELUSIVE J.D. SALINGER HE FLED TO NEW HAMPSHIRE IN 1965, BUT THAT HASN'T STOPPED HIS FANS FROM THINKING ABOUT HIM AND HIS EAGERLY AWAITED - BUT MUCH DELAYED - BOOK.(COMMENTARY)(Review)

Byline: BERNICE GROHSKOPF

Remember that provocative headline a year ago: ``New Salinger book to be published - first one in decades''?

That was January 1997. Publication of J.D. Salinger's Hapworth 16, 1924 was scheduled for early February, then mid-February, late February, early March, late March, April. . . .

Don't hold your breath.

Now, according to publisher Roger Lathbury, ``It may be three months or three years.''

Lathbury, an English professor at George Mason University, runs Orchises Press, an obscure outfit in Alexandria; it publishes about five books a year.

Hapworth, Salinger's ``new'' book, is actually a ...

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