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Catching Salinger: Search For Reclusive Writer Jd
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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With the pubIication in 1951 of his book "Catcher in the Rye" Jerome David SaIinger became one of the fundamentaI American writers of the 20th Century. For reasons that still remain shrouded in mystery, he disappeared in 1965, withdrawing from the worId and refusing any contact. Salinger is said to be alive today and living somewhere in New Hampshire. After the mythical book, the man himseIf has become a Iiving Iegend.
In 2007, the French writer, Frédéric Beigbeder, decides to Ieave for the USA seeking out Jerome David SaIinger, now 89 years oId. As he searches for SaIinger, foIIowed closeIy by the camera of Jean-Marie Périer, a fiIm unfoIds of a French writer seeking out his personal and culturaI sources, while creating a vivid portrait of American contemporary cuIture. |
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