Catherine, We can all rally round & give you our views on Franny & Zooey - & you will find your own impressions confirmed or modified. And you will feel very much a member of this cosy little club. But if you return instead to Anna K. you'll be back in St Petersburg & Moscow at that time, watching the snow fall across the city, hearing the carriages in the street, knowing what it means to be a woman in a great many aspects of her being. An experience a good deal more enriching than empathising with a pair of self-regarding airheads who've read too much popular oriental philosophy. Scottie B.