Used Book – An American Adolescence, Joyce Maynard, Simone Arous

In 1972, eighteen-year-old Joyce Maynard testified about her generation in the New York Times. J.D. Salinger, thirty-five years her senior, wrote to her. Soon after, she left university to live with him. During their tumultuous affair, she followed up on this article and recounted, with disarming maturity, the Vietnam War, Woodstock, television and the miniskirt, gender (in)equality, and prom nights – an American youth in a changing world. Blending memoir, cultural history, and social critique, Joyce Maynard delivers an intimate, universal, and fascinating document.

"An American Adolescence is a dive (back) into the spirit of the sixties. Both a 'piece of cultural history' and a 'slice of nostalgia'." Le Monde

Translated from American English by Simone Arous