{"product_id":"at-home-in-the-world-paperback","title":"At Home in the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoyce Maynard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLabor Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWith a New Preface \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen it was first published in 1998, \u003ci\u003eAt Home in the World \u003c\/i\u003eset off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard's memoir broke a silence concerning her relationship--at age eighteen--with J.D. Salinger, the famously reclusive author of \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye, \u003c\/i\u003e then age fifty-three, who had read a story she wrote for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e in her freshman year of college and sent her a letter that changed her life. Reviewers called her book shameless and powerful and its author was simultaneously reviled and cheered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith what some have viewed as shocking honesty, Maynard explores her coming of age in an alcoholic family, her mother's dream to mold her into a writer, her self-imposed exile from the world of her peers when she left Yale to live with Salinger, and her struggle to reclaim her sense of self in the crushing aftermath of his dismissal of her not long after her nineteenth birthday. A quarter of a century later--having become a writer, survived the end of her marriage and the deaths of her parents, and with an eighteen-year-old daughter of her own--Maynard pays a visit to the man who broke her heart. The story she tells--of the girl she was and the woman she became--is at once devastating, inspiring, and triumphant.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoyce Maynard\u003c\/b\u003e's essays have appeared in magazines and newspapers for five decades. She is the author of four works of nonfiction and nine novels, including \u003ci\u003eAfter Her\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo Die For, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLabor Day\u003c\/i\u003e, which was the basis of the 2013 major motion picture of the same name\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44516337254502,"sku":"9781250046444","price":29.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/dTFvNkYrSEZiZHd2dy9oWGpUaXB0Zz09.webp?v=1770745858","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/at-home-in-the-world-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}