Just Before the War with the Eskimos

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Just Before the War with the Eskimos is a short story by J.D. Salinger that explores themes of alienation and unexpected human connection through the tense encounter between a teenage girl and her friend's troubled brother.

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instanceOf literary work
short story
author J. D. Salinger
authorNationality American
collectionPublicationYear 1953
countryOfOrigin United States
firstPublicationYear 1948
firstPublishedIn The New Yorker
genre literary realism
short fiction
hasAuthor J. D. Salinger
hasCharacter Franklin Graff
Ginnie Mannox
Selena Graff
hasForm prose
hasLength short story length
hasProtagonist Ginnie Mannox
hasTheme alienation
emotional vulnerability
interpersonal tension
unexpected human connection
includedInCollection Nine Stories
language English
literaryMovement postwar American fiction
literaryPeriod 20th-century American literature
mainCharacter Franklin Graff
Ginnie Mannox
Selena Graff
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage English
originalMedium print
partOf J. D. Salinger bibliography
publicationType magazine publication
publisherOfCollection Little, Brown and Company
publisherOfFirstMagazinePublication The New Yorker
setting New York City
targetAudience adult readers
theme adolescence
alienation
communication
isolation
unexpected human connection
timePeriodOfSetting mid-20th century

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