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The catcher in the rye / J.D. Salinger.
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories--particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme With Love and Squalor--will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. 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. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.--Amazon
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316769532
- ISBN: 0316769533
- ISBN: 9780316769174
- ISBN: 0316769177
- Physical Description: 277 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: [First edition].
- Publisher: Boston, MA : Little, Brown, 1951.
- Copyright: ©1951
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
| Target Audience Note: | 790L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.7 11 5978. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Caulfield, Holden (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Runaway teenagers > Fiction. Teenage boys > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. Novels. |
Show Only Available Copies
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Webb City Public Library | YA Salinger, J.D. (Text) | 38262300003793 | Young Adult | Available | - |
