num_pages: 201
description: The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.
language: English
title: Franny and Zooey
titlecomplete: Franny and Zooey
characters: Franny Glass, Buddy Glass, Lane Coutell, Bessie Glass, Zooey Glass
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult, Short Stories, Fiction, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 216220
awards: awardedAt: -252432000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Little, Brown and Company (Boston/Toronto)