The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger

ISBN 10: 0316769533 / ISBN 13: 9780316769532

Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1951

About this Item

Excellent condition with just a hint of character. Minor signs of love, but the pages are still clean and ready for adventure.

Seller Inventory # PKV.0316769533.VG

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Catcher in the Rye
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication Date: 1951
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316769533
• ISBN 13: 9780316769532
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

About this title

Synopsis

The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books.




"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 hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.

About the Author

J. D. Salinger was born in New York City on January 1, 1919, and died in Cornish, New Hampshire, on January 27, 2010. His stories appeared in many magazines, most notably The New Yorker. Between 1951 and 1963 he produced four book-length works of fiction: The Catcher in the Rye; Nine Stories; Franny and Zooey; and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour--An Introduction. The books have been embraced and celebrated throughout the world and have been credited with instilling in many a lifelong love of reading.