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Authors Drama Authors, American 21st century Biography College graduates Fiction Friendship Fiction Literary agents Drama Literature publishing United States History 21st century New York (N.Y.) Fiction Rakoff, Joanna 1972- Film adaptations Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David) 1919-2010 Drama Smith Rakoff, Joanna 1972-Smith Rakoff, Joanna
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAKOFF, JOANNA RAKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem RakoffRakoff, Joanna Smith
Summary: Like The Group, Mary McCarthy's classic tale about coming of age in New York, Joanna Smith Rakoff 's richly drawn and immensely satisfying first novel details the lives of a group of Oberlin graduates whose ambitions and friendships threaten to unravel as they chase their dreams, shed their youth, and build their lives in Brooklyn during the late 1990s and the turn of the twenty-first century....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAKQualley, Margaret
Summary: An aspiring writer receives personal advice from reclusive author J.D. Salinger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2021