The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger

ISBN 10: 0451010019 / ISBN 13: 9780451010018

Published by Signet March 1959, 1959

About this Item

Good, minimal shelfwear, clean text.

Seller Inventory # 1212194

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Catcher in the Rye
• Publisher: Signet March 1959
• Publication Date: 1959
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451010019
• ISBN 13: 9780451010018
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Condition: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Rare/Pocketbooks & Pamphlets

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Synopsis

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener seņales normales de uso

Review

Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,

"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. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."

His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.