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五年前,伊恩·汉密尔顿着手为《麦田中的守望者》一书的作者 J·D·塞林格作传。《麦田中的守望者》出版于1951年。大约十年后这部小说才风靡一时,现在每年仍能在世界范围内售出25万册。50年代,汉密尔顿是个十几岁的孩子。那时,他同千百万同龄人一样,感到小说中叙述故事的那个少年霍尔顿·考菲尔德,说出了他的心里话。他被这部小说迷住了。正是这种着迷的劲头使他开始探究该小说作者的身世。人们还真应该感谢他的着迷精神呢。然而,如今
Five years ago, Ian Hamilton set out as the author of JD Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye. The Catcher in the Rye was published in 1951. About a decade later the novel was all the rage, and it is still sold 250,000 copies a year worldwide. In the 1950s, Hamilton was a teenager. At that time, like millions of his peers, he felt his heart-felt young boy, Holden Caulfield, who described the story in the novel. He was fascinated by this novel. It is this fascination that has led him to explore the story of the novel’s author. People really should be grateful to his fascination with it. However, nowadays