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" Hapworth 16, 1924 " is the " youngest " of J. D. Salinger's Glass family stories, in the sense that the narrated events happen chronologically before those in the rest of the great " Glass series ".
It appeared in the June 19, 1965 edition of The New Yorker — infamously taking up almost the entire magazine — and was the last of Salinger's works to be published in his lifetime.
It was harshly panned by both contemporary and later literary critics, with even kinder critics regarding the work as " a long-winded sob story " which many have found to be " simply unreadable ," and this negative response has been speculated to be the reason Salinger decided to quit publishing.
Conversely, Salinger is reported to have considered the story a " high point of his writing " and made tentative steps to have it reprinted ; these efforts came to nothing however.

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