![]() ![]() “He wrote many letters to Oona-I found them. ![]() Usually it says: ‘Jerry fell in love with Eugene O’Neill’s daughter in 1941, then Jerry went to the army and Oona married Chaplin in 1942.’ But if you start studying you find a lot more information,” he continues. “In all of Salinger’s biographies, his love story with young Oona O’Neill takes one paragraph maximum. “Once you start a story, you feel that everything around you is related,” Beigbeder explains. The details, however-the conversations, the emotions-come from Beigbeder’s imagination. Oona and Salinger did indeed have a brief romance, and many real-life characters appear throughout their narrative, including as Truman Capote and Gloria Vanderbilt. In the book’s introduction, Beigbeder deems it a work of “faction,” a word he borrows from Diana Vreeland. ![]() Salinger and Oona O’Neill, the future wife of Charlie Chaplin and the daughter of the famed playwright Eugene O’Neill. Set in New York during the 1940s, Manhattan’s Babe recounts the love story between J.D. On Fifth Avenue, the Tiffany’s store is right next to Trump Tower, but I know where I prefer to have breakfast.” “I hope this book is a sad, romantic tribute to the America I love. “I want to break readers’ hearts,” says French writer Frédéric Beigbeder of his novel Manhattan’s Babe, which was recently translated into English and released as an illustrated hardback by Assouline. RETOUCHING: KASIA KRET/ STUDIO INVISIBLE. FRÉDÉRIC BEIGBEDER AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, JANUARY 2017. ![]()
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