ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Of the nine stories to the book the following seven appeared originally
in THE NEW YORKER; "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," "Uncle Wiggily in
Connecticut," "Just Before the War with the Eskimos," "The Laughing
Man," "For Esmi:-with Love and Squalor," "Pretty Mouth and Green My
Eyes," and "Teddy." The author is grateful to THE NEW YORKER for
permission to reprint.
The author also wishes to thank HARPER'S MAGAZINE for permission to
reprint "Down at the Dinghy."
Copyright, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, by J. D. Salinger.
TO DOROTHY OLDING and GUS LOBRANO
We know the sound of two hands clapping. But what is the sound of one
hand clapping?
--A ZEN KOALAContents:
A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut
Just Before the War with the Eskimos
The Laughing Man
Down at the Dinghy
For Esme:--with Love and Squalor
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period
Teddy
NINE STORIES
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A Perfect Day for BananafishTHERE WERE ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the
way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl in 507 had
to wait from noon till almost two-thirty to get her call through. She
used the time, though. She read an article in a women's pocket-size
magazine, called "Sex Is Fun-or Hell." She washed her comb and brush.
She took the spot out of the skirt of her beige suit. She moved the
button on her Saks blouse. She tweezed out two freshly surfaced hairs in
her mole. When the operator finally rang her room, she was sitting on
the window seat and had almost finished putting lacquer on the nails of
her left hand.
She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She
looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had
reached puberty.
With her little lacquer brush, while the phone was ringing, she went
over the nail of her little finger, accentuating the line of the moon.
Of the nine stories to the book the following seven appeared originally
in THE NEW YORKER; "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," "Uncle Wiggily in
Connecticut," "Just Before the War with the Eskimos," "The Laughing
Man," "For Esmi:-with Love and Squalor," "Pretty Mouth and Green My
Eyes," and "Teddy." The author is grateful to THE NEW YORKER for
permission to reprint.
The author also wishes to thank HARPER'S MAGAZINE for permission to
reprint "Down at the Dinghy."
Copyright, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, by J. D. Salinger.
TO DOROTHY OLDING and GUS LOBRANO
We know the sound of two hands clapping. But what is the sound of one
hand clapping?
--A ZEN KOALAContents:
A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut
Just Before the War with the Eskimos
The Laughing Man
Down at the Dinghy
For Esme:--with Love and Squalor
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period
Teddy
NINE STORIES
----------------------------
A Perfect Day for BananafishTHERE WERE ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the
way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl in 507 had
to wait from noon till almost two-thirty to get her call through. She
used the time, though. She read an article in a women's pocket-size
magazine, called "Sex Is Fun-or Hell." She washed her comb and brush.
She took the spot out of the skirt of her beige suit. She moved the
button on her Saks blouse. She tweezed out two freshly surfaced hairs in
her mole. When the operator finally rang her room, she was sitting on
the window seat and had almost finished putting lacquer on the nails of
her left hand.
She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She
looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had
reached puberty.
With her little lacquer brush, while the phone was ringing, she went
over the nail of her little finger, accentuating the line of the moon.
