At Home in the World, Joyce Maynard
At Home in the World, Joyce Maynard
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At Home in the World
A Memoir

Author: Joyce Maynard

Narrator: Joyce Maynard

Unabridged: 13 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/03/2013


Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day comes At Home in the World, an honest and shocking memoir of falling in love—at age 18—with one of America's most reclusive literary figures, J. D. Salinger.

In the spring of 1972, Joyce Maynard, a freshman at Yale, published a cover story in The New York Times Magazine about life in the sixties. Among the many letters of praise, offers for writing assignments, and request for interviews was a one-page letter from the famously reclusive author, J.D. Salinger.

At Home in the World is the story of a girl who loved and lived with J.D. Salinger, and the woman she became. A crucial turning point in Joyce Maynard's life occurred when her own daughter turned eighteen--the age Maynard was when Salinger first approached her. Breaking a twenty-five year silence, Joyce Maynard addresses her relationship with Salinger for the first time, as well as the complicated, troubled and yet creative nature of her youth and family. She vividly describes the details of the times and her life with the finesse of a natural storyteller.

Courageously written by a women determined to allow her life to unfold with authenticity, At Home in the World is a testament to the resiliency of the spirit and the honesty of an unwavering eye.

About Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard was born and raised in New Hampshire.  She is the author of several books, including To Die For, Where Love Goes, Domestic Affairs, Baby Talk, and her memoir Looking Back, which she wrote at the age of eighteen.  Joyce Maynard has written for many national publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Parenting and Good Housekeeping.  She lives in Mill Valley, California, with her three children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathleen on February 27, 2013

My reaction to this book is mixed. Twenty years ago when I would happen upon Maynard's articles on the ups and downs of raising children, I really enjoyed her plucky but sufficiently self-deprecating storytelling style. I did not know anything else about the columnist. Reading At Home in the World i......more

Goodreads review by Camille on September 22, 2013

Joyce Maynards's book, AT HOME IN THE WORLD, came out in 1998 and what I recall from the press that passed by my eyes back then was a "tell-all" by one of J.D. Salinger's mistresses. Stop right here. Nothing could be more misleading. The nine months of Maynard's living in Cornish, New Hampshire, wit......more


Quotes

“Unsparing self-scrutiny...maturity and emotional candor.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“Absorbing, funny, and emotionally blistering.” —Jules Siegel, San Francisco Chronicle

“A wry, painful, engaging book.” —Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes

“Maynard's testimony is priceless.” —Mary Cantwell, Vogue

“Riveting and disturbing.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Even Salinger loyalists may feel compelled to reexamine their idol.” —Glamour

“Dazzling.” —San Francisco Chronicle