Such a great author of cult books of the sixties and seventies, Catcher in the Rye,Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roofbeams et cetera.
I was passionate about them when I was twenty but I wonder if I could still read them now ?
He has published nothing for fifty years but according to his neighbour he never stopped writing;
In 1999, New Hampshire neighbour Jerry Burt said the author had told him years earlier that he had written at least 15 unpublished books kept locked in a safe at his home.
I wonder if the safe will now be opened and will we see these books ?
Fascinating thought…………….
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Rossa McMahon
on January 29, 2010Similarly, rumours abounded that Truman Capote’s last, unfinished novel (Answered Prayers) was, in fact, finished. Some claim that he showed them the final manuscript on his deathbed and gave a friend a safety deposit box key saying that the manuscript would be found when it wanted to be found.
Nothing like a bit of mystique to add to a legend!
Hopefully any future publications won’t damage the record of either writer.
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