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The catcher in the rye

By J. D. Salinger

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"The catcher in the rye" is published by Little, Brown and Company in 1951 - Boston, it has 277 pages and the language of the book is English.

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Title: The catcher in the rye
Author: J. D. Salinger
Language: English
Number of Pages: 277
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publish Date: 1951
Publish Location: Boston

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Edition Specifications:

Format: hardcover
Pagination: 277p.

Edition Identifiers:

The Open Library ID: OL21494815M - OL3335245W
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 1003115
Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 51004713

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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

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Anyone who has read J. D. Salinger's New Yorker stories — particularly A Per- fect 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 pre- clude 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 iost strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, under- ground voices—but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a articu- lated 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 pleas. ure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.

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