Oona & Salinger

The genre of his new book "Oona & Salinger" by F. Beigbeder with his usual desire to shock defines as faction, that is fact plus fi ction. The facts are simple: 1940, new York. 21-year old aspiring writer Jerry Salinger met 15-year-old Oona O'neill, daughter of famous playwright. The idyll did not last long, a few months later the Japanese attacked pearl Harbor, Salinger went to fight in Europe, and una decided to try his luck in Hollywood. Poprobovavshih on role in the film of Charlie Chaplin, she received the lead role in his own life. Salinger honestly fought, then fought through journal publication in great literature and finally created his master piece, "the catcher in the rye". But Beigbeder is interested not only the facts, how much is the magical meeting of heroes, which turned parting for a lifetime and yet has become what defines this life.