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The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

Average based on 3 comments. Synopses & Reviews Customer Comments (3) ISBN13: 9780316769174 ISBN10: 0316769177 Condition: Standard All Product Details

 

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Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.

Review:

"Repetitive, indecent, often very funny, it is wonderfully sustained by the author, who achieves all those ancient effects to be got from a hero who is in some ways inferior, and in some ways superior, to the reader....Why, then, with all this to admire, do I find something phoney in the book itself?....[T]he adult view of adolescence, insinuated by skillful faking, is agreeable to predictable public taste....[It] is what the consumer needs....The boy's attitudes to religion, authority, art, sex and so on are what smart people would like other people to have, but cannot have themselves, because of their superior understanding." Frank Kermode, Review from Spectator, 05/30/1958

Synopsis:

J.D. Salinger's classic of adolescent angst is now available for the first time in trade paperback. Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.

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al123, January 1, 2013 (view all comments by al123)
Sometimes I wish more people were like Holden Caulfield.

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rodolfo raimondi, January 19, 2012 (view all comments by rodolfo raimondi)
I loved this book. Like a picture shot on my life....

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BGP, October 10, 2009 (view all comments by BGP)
This is, without question, the most overrated book that I have had the grave misfortune to encounter. I will grant that, in its day, the book was probably read as a refreshing challenge to the generally accepted understanding of what it means to be a youth, but, by today's standards, Holden is a seventeen year old kid struggling through a sixth grade existential crisis.

This book has not aged well.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780316769174

Author:

Salinger, J. D.

Publisher:

Back Bay Books

Location:

Boston

Subject:

Fiction

Subject:

Classics

Subject:

New york (n.y.)

Subject:

New York

Subject:

Runaway teenagers

Subject:

Caulfield, Holden

Subject:

American fiction (fictional works by one auth

Subject:

Bildungsromans

Subject:

Teenagers

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Copyright:

2001

Edition Description:

1st Back Bay paperback ed.

Series Volume:

105-708

Publication Date:

20010131

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Language:

English

Pages:

288

Dimensions:

8.02x5.31x.80 in. .53 lbs.

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Product details 288 pages Back Bay Books - 2005-01-13 English 9780316769174 Reviews:

"Review" by Frank Kermode, Review from Spectator, 05/30/1958, "Repetitive, indecent, often very funny, it is wonderfully sustained by the author, who achieves all those ancient effects to be got from a hero who is in some ways inferior, and in some ways superior, to the reader....Why, then, with all this to admire, do I find something phoney in the book itself?....[T]he adult view of adolescence, insinuated by skillful faking, is agreeable to predictable public taste....[It] is what the consumer needs....The boy's attitudes to religion, authority, art, sex and so on are what smart people would like other people to have, but cannot have themselves, because of their superior understanding."

"Synopsis" by Libri, J.D. Salinger's classic of adolescent angst is now available for the first time in trade paperback. Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.