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Nine Stories: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J.D. Salinger

Seymour Glass, a young combat veteran haunted by his experiences during World War II, visits a seaside hotel with his wife Muriel. Learn these words from the first story in J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories.

Here are links to our lists for other short stories in Nine Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish,
Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esmé–with Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, Teddy

Here is a link to our lists for J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye.
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