The Catcher in the Rye

Salinger, J. D.

ISBN 10: 0241950430 / ISBN 13: 9780241950432

Published by Penguin, 2010

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Condition: (see pics.) The book has not been read and apart from some scuffs to the cover is in like new condition. Synopsis: Holden Caulfield is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the 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. A modern classic.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Catcher in the Rye
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241950430
• ISBN 13: 9780241950432
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classics

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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.