Understanding The Catcher in the Rye

Kallen, Stuart A.

ISBN 10: 1560067837 / ISBN 13: 9781560067832

Published by Lucent Books, San Diego, California, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding The Catcher in the Rye
• Publisher: Lucent Books, San Diego, California
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1560067837
• ISBN 13: 9781560067832
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition: First Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Literature Studies

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Synopsis

An introduction to Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" discusses the author's life, his perceptions of society in the 1950s, and the novel's plot, characters, and themes.

Reviews

Gr 8 Up-An overly simplistic book that offers neither new insights nor helpful reinterpretations of the novel. Instead, it is an insultingly simple regurgitation of material already well covered in Warren French's J. D. Salinger (1985; o.p.) and J. D. Salinger, Revisited (1988, both Twayne), and, for those who need something simple, Harold Bloom's The Catcher in the Rye (Chelsea, 1999). Illustrated with black-and-white photos, and including an appendix of brief (one or two paragraphs) snippets of criticism from assorted sources (books, journals, and newspapers), a chronology of Salinger's life, and a bibliography of critical works, this very slender volume is an unnecessary purchase.-Herman Sutter, Saint Agnes Academy, Houston, TX

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