Ce recueil contient : " Un jour rêvé pour le poisson-banane ", " Oncle déglingué au Connecticut ", " Juste avant la guerre avec les Esquimaux ", " L'Homme hilare ", " En bas, sur le canot ", " Pour Esmé, avec amour et abjection ", " Jolie ma bouche et verts mes yeux ", " L'époque bleue de Daumier-Smith ", " Teddy ".

An American soldier has a strange encounter with an orphaned English teenager the night before he leaves for war. A four-year-old boy runs away in a dinghy; a missionary's child is kidnapped by Chinese bandits. A honeymoon in Florida goes awry with tragic consequences. Including the first stories to feature Salinger's beloved Glass family characters, this brilliantly varied collection offers a vivid introduction to the work of one of the most admired and widely read American novelists of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane and frequently affecting, For Esmé - with Love and Squalor sits alongside Salinger's very best work - a gem that will be passed down for many generations to come.