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Franny and Zooey is a 1961 novel by J. D. Salinger, best known for The Catcher in the Rye.
The novel consists of two different but related stories, Franny and Zooey. The stories originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine. Franny and Zooey are members of the Glass family, a frequent focus of Salinger's writings, including Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenters and Seymour -- An Introduction, as well as several of the stories in his collection Nine Stories.
Franny is the story of Franny Glass's date with her pretentious boyfriend, Lane Coutell. They have a dinner of frogs' legs before going to a football game and he talks about his "A" paper on Flaubert as she begins to feel sick. She tells him about a book she's been reading, The Way of a Pilgrim and the story climaxes as she faints.
Zooey is about the day after, starting with Franny's older brother, Zooey Glass, taking a bath and talking to his mother, Bessie. After he gets out of the bath, he goes in to talk with his sister in the other room. In the point after their long conversation, Zooey calls Franny pretending to be Buddy, though Franny soon discovers it is actually Zooey. The story shortly concludes.
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