The Catcher in the Rye

Salinger, J. D.

ISBN 10: 0140012486 / ISBN 13: 9780140012484

Published by London : Penguin, 1985

About this Item

Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 218 p, 18cm. Subjects: Fiction. Genre: Fiction. Language: English. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Catcher in the Rye
• Publisher: London : Penguin
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140012486
• ISBN 13: 9780140012484
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 6th Edition or Higher.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

About this title

Synopsis

1969. Reprint. 220 pages. Paperback book with silver cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

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.