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Hapworth 16, 1924
"Hapworth 16, 1924" is the "youngest" of J. D. Salinger's Glass family stories, in the sense that the narrated events happen chronologically before those in the rest of the "Glass series". It appeared in the June 19, 1965 edition of ''The New Yorker''—infamously taking up almost the entire magazine—and was the last of Salinger's works to be published in his lifetime. Both contemporary and later literary critics harshly panned it; writing in ''The New York Times'', Michiko Kakutani called it "a sour, implausible and, sad to say, completely charmless story," "filled with digressions, narcissistic asides and ridiculous shaggy-dog circumlocutions. 〔http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/20/books/from-salinger-a-new-dash-of-mystery.html〕 Even kind critics have regarded the work as "a long-winded sob story" which many have found to be "simply unreadable," and it has been speculated that this negative response was the reason Salinger decided to quit publishing.〔French (1986), pp. 110-112〕 Conversely, Salinger is said to have considered the story a "high point of his writing" and made tentative steps to have it reprinted; nonetheless, these efforts came to nothing.〔Lathbury (2010)〕
==Plot==
The story is presented in the form of a letter from camp written by a seven-year-old Seymour Glass (the main character of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"). In this respect, the plot is identical to Salinger's previous story "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls," written some two decades earlier. In the course of requesting a veritable library of reading matter from home, Seymour predicts his brother's success as a writer as well as his own death and condemns the ironic "twist" endings in the stories of Anatole France, twist endings being an early Salinger device.
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