The Catcher in the Rye

Jerome David Salinger

ISBN 10: 0553149660 / ISBN 13: 9780553149661

Published by Boston : Little, Brown, 1951

About this Item

In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

Seller Inventory # 123760950

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Catcher in the Rye
• Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
• Publication Date: 1951
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553149660
• ISBN 13: 9780553149661
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

The Catcher in the Rye

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.