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The Catcher In The Rye

by J.D. Salinger
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Teenage angst and quest for authenticity.

If you've ever felt out of place, or struggled with the complexities of growing up, Holden's journey feels intensely personal. His raw, candid take on the world around him might resonate with your own experiences. Salinger captures the essence of youthful disillusionment with a voice that's both cynical and endearingly sincere. It's a story that anyone who's ever felt like they don't quite fit in can relate to.

  • Teen Read Award Nominee for Best All-Time-Fave (2010)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1952)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Catcher In The Rye

by J.D. Salinger
$11.90 Now $9.90 Save 17% more
ISBN: 9780140012484
Authors: J.D. Salinger
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 1986-11-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Young Adult
Related Topics: High School
Goodreads rating: 3.8
(rated by 3501583 readers)

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. 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. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. J.D. Salinger's classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.
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Teenage angst and quest for authenticity.

If you've ever felt out of place, or struggled with the complexities of growing up, Holden's journey feels intensely personal. His raw, candid take on the world around him might resonate with your own experiences. Salinger captures the essence of youthful disillusionment with a voice that's both cynical and endearingly sincere. It's a story that anyone who's ever felt like they don't quite fit in can relate to.

  • Teen Read Award Nominee for Best All-Time-Fave (2010)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1952)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.