Catcher in the Rye
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Book Description
The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. 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. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story... More
Book Information
Publisher | Chivers |
Binding | Paperback (187 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 347 |
ISBN-10 | 0745118445 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0745118444 |
Publication Date | 03/01/1994 |
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12/10/2012 KARTHIK MOORTHY said: this was my first book and read it when i was 17 ......................................
6/26/2008 Kerry McCaskill said:
tags: I recommend, I read
As with the movie Citizen Kane, its difficult to grasp just how groundbreaking Catcher in the Rye's in-your-face style must have been when it was originally published because its influence on modern storytelling and American culture has been so great. I always imagined that alienated teen Holden Ca... more
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