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Margaret Salinger has managed to portray more her father's fiction in a critical context, as well as supplying vital research instead of gossip to help readers see what she knows about the ways .

Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. Dream Catcher: A Memoir. Margaret A. In her much-anticipated memoir, Margaret A. Salinger writes about life with her famously reclusive father, J. Salinger -- offering a rare look into the man and the myth, what it is like to be his daughter, and the effect of such a charismatic figure on the girls and women closest to him.

With generosity and insight, Ms. Salinger has written a book that is eloquent, spellbinding, and wise, yet at the same time retains the intimacy of a novel. Her story chronicles an almost cultlike environment of extreme isolation and early neglect interwoven with times of laughter, joy, and dazzling beauty.

Margaret Salinger tells us that her father made a point of looking up Hemingway, who was serving as a war correspondent in liberated Paris, and showing him a copy of one of his early war.

Salinger compassionately explores the complex dynamics of family relationships. Her story is one that seeks to come to terms with the dark parts of her life that, quite literally, nearly killed her, and to pass on a life-affirming heritage to her own child. The story of being a Salinger is unique; the story of being a daughter is universal. This book appeals to anyone, J.