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Title: Enjoyable read of trials and joys of a young writer.
Review: Joyce Maynard's AT HOME IN THE WORLD :A MEMOIR is an enjoyable and poignant story about a young writer who is both lonely and talented. It is also a fascinating story of a mother who is very enemshed in her daughter's life and what the daughter did to find herself. Joyce through her writing and waifish demeanor becomes a focal point of control and seduction for one of the most recluse writer's of our day, J.D. Salinger. Their relationship and subsequent breakup is the most riveting part of the book. The balance of the story seems to be falling action. I read it in one sitting and was caught up in her story. Perhaps you will be too. I could not help but feel sad at the lonely girl who was abandoned by responsibile adults as they were overtaken by celebrity. How she found her way to a fufilling life is incredible and worthy of your time. .
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