For Esmé With Love and Squalor includes two of Salinger?s most famous and
critically acclaimed stories, and helped to establish him as one of the
contemporary literary greats. The title story recounts a Sergeant's meeting
with a young girl before being sent into combat. When it was first
published in The New Yorker in 1950 it was an immediate sensation and
prompted a flood of readers? fan-letters. ?A Perfect Day for Bananafish? is
the first of the author?s stories to feature the Glass family, the loveable
and idiosyncratic family who would appear in much of Salinger's later
fiction. A haunting and unforgettable piece of writing, the story follows
the eldest sibling, Seymour Glass, and his wife, Muriel, as they embark on
an ill-fated honeymoon in Florida . . .