Rothesay Revealed As a Reclusive Salinger's Secret Scottish Retreat

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WHERE better for a camera-shy American on the cusp of fame to escape than to take a trip "doon the watter" to the Isle of Bute?

It was 1951 and the young American, one Jerome David Salinger, was about to become one of the world's most famous writers, as renowned for his novel The Catcher in the Rye, which was adopted by generation after generation of teenagers, as he was for his hermit- like lifestyle.

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Rothesay Revealed As a Reclusive Salinger's Secret Scottish Retreat

The story of how Salinger, who died on January 27, aged 91, found his way to Rothesay at what was one of the most critical periods in his life, has been told for the ...

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