The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger

Name: The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

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Summary

Holden Caulfield is a dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.

The Catcher in the Rye Summary

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.'

The first of J. D. Salinger's four books to be published, The Catcher in the Rye is one of the most widely read and beloved of all contemporary American novels.

'The handbook of the adolescent heart' The New Yorker

The Catcher in the Rye Reviews

I liked it very much indeed, more than anything for a long time. -- Samuel Beckett

About J. D. Salinger

J. D. Salinger was born in 1919 and died in January 2010. He grew up in New York City and wrote short stories from an early age, but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication in the New Yorker of 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'. The Catcher in the Rye was his first and only novel, published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated, taught and reprinted texts, and has sold over 65 million copies worldwide. He went on to write three further, critically acclaimed, best-selling works of fiction: Franny and Zooey, For Esme - With Love And Squalor and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour - An Introduction. Salinger continued to write throughout his life and left behind a large body of unpublished work.

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Sku

GOR001714600

ISBN 13

9780241950432

ISBN 10

0241950430

Title

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Author

J. D. Salinger

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Year published

2010-03-04

Number of pages

240

Prizes

N/A

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Note

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