Oliver Frost Frost itibaren Glenevis, AB T0E, Kanada
I love this collection, particularly the Glass family stories; I deduct one star for "De Daumier Smith's Blue Period" and "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes." He is most insightful when he's with the Glasses (maybe because Buddy is him?) and of course the final moment of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" informs every other moment for the Glasses. I wrote in my review of Franny and Zooey how the war is an ominous presence, sometimes past, sometimes present ("For Esme, with Love and Squalor," one of the best), and always incredibly interesting. Read together with the other Glass stories, we have an appropriately fractured look into a fascinating family.