The Catcher In The Rye (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Salinger, J. D.

ISBN 10: 141764639X / ISBN 13: 9781417646395

Published by Turtleback Books, New York, 2010

About this Item

Vg+ 277 Pgs. Glossy Hardcover/Library Binding Ed. No Marks.

Seller Inventory # 035025

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Catcher In The Rye (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
• Publisher: Turtleback Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 141764639X
• ISBN 13: 9781417646395
• Binding: Library Binding
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature, Fiction, Classics

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.

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.