Manhattan's Babe

Manhattan's Babe
AuthorFrédéric Beigbeder
Original titleOona et Salinger
TranslatorAdam Biles
LanguageFrench
PublisherÉditions Grasset
Publication date
20 August 2014
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
27 December 2016
Pages336
ISBN978-2-246-77701-4

Manhattan's Babe (French: Oona et Salinger, lit. 'Oona and Salinger') is a 2014 novel by the French writer Frédéric Beigbeder. It is about the failed romance between the young Oona O'Neill and J. D. Salinger.

Plot

Oona O'Neill is the daughter of the playwright Eugene O'Neill and an it girl in New York. In 1940, when she is 15 years old, she visits the Stork Club where she meets the short story writer Jerry Salinger who immediately falls in love with her. They flirt during the night, but Oona is quickly tired of him and moves on, and Jerry is soon drafted into the military. Oona begins a career as a Hollywood actress and meets Charlie Chaplin, who seduces her and marries her in 1943, when she is 18 and he 54. Hearing about this, Jerry is filled with jealousy and bitterness.[1]

Reception

Jérôme Dupuis of L'Express called it a "fluid and well-documented story" and complimented its fictional, desperate letters from Salinger to Oona. Dupuis was negative to Beigbeder's sometimes failed "pirouettes", where he tries to incorporate unrelated material such as flirting advice, parallels to contemporary French celebrities, or the story of how Beigbeder fell in love with his wife at first sight when she was 20 and he was 45.[1] Eric Chevillard of Le Monde criticised the degree to which Beigbeder made the story about himself and wrote that "Salinger, Chaplin & Me" would have been a more fitting title.[2] Kirkus Reviews highlighted the part about World War II and described Beigbeder's writing as cinematic, calling it "romantic, analytical, sometimes excessively cute".[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Dupuis, Jérôme (25 August 2014). "Oona, Salinger et Frédéric Beigbeder". L'Express (in French). Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  2. ^ Chevillard, Eric (13 August 2014). "Frédéric & Beigbeder". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Manhattan's Babe". Kirkus Reviews. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2023.

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