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description: A Perfect Day for Bananafish is a short story by J. D. Salinger originally published in the January 31 1948 issue of The New Yorker. It was anthologized in 1949's 55 Short Stories from The New Yorker as well as in Salinger's 1953 collection Nine Stories.
language: English
title: A Perfect Day for Bananafish
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