Новинки Джоанны Рэйкофф

Я начинала с темной комнаты с книжными шкафами от пола до потолка, в легендарнейшем литературном агентстве. Отвечая на многочисленные письма поклонников самого Сэлинджера, я не заметила, как вступила в переписку от его лица… Изо дня в день ложь росла как снежный ком, пока рутину вдребезги не разбил один единственный звонок. Это был Джерри… Джером Дэвид Сэлинджер был на связи.

New York, fin des années 1990. Joanna, jeune diplômée en Lettres, s'installe à Brooklyn : la bohème, les cafés, les lofts. Elle trouve un poste d'assistante dans une prestigieuse agence littéraire. Chaque jour, elle quitte l'appartement minuscule qu'elle occupe avec son petit ami, pour se rendre sur l'éblouissante Madison Avenue et retrouver L'Agence : ses illustres clients, l'antique dictaphone et la machine à écrire qui trônent encore sur son bureau. Mais aussi, et surtout, sa patronne, une femme de tête aussi fantasque que charismatique... Et le fantôme de Salinger, gigantesque.

At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelled agency, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-time agents doze at their desks after martini lunches, and at night she goes home to the tiny, threadbare Brooklyn apartment she shares with her socialist boyfriend. Precariously balanced between glamour and poverty, surrounded by titanic personalities and struggling to trust her own artistic sense, Joanna is given the task of…

Poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly funny: a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself entangled with one of the last great figures of the century. At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-time agents doze at their desks after martini lunches. At night she goes home to the…

After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J.D.Salinger. Precariously balanced between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office—where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze after three-martini lunches—and then goes home to her threadbare Brooklyn apartment and her socialist boyfriend. Rakoff is tasked with processing Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency’s form response and impulsively begins…

At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelled agency, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-time agents doze at their desks after martini lunches, and at night she goes home to the tiny, threadbare Brooklyn apartment she shares with her socialist boyfriend. Precariously balanced between glamour and poverty, surrounded by titanic personalities and struggling to trust her own artistic sense, Joanna is given the task of…