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The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger, Jerome David is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com Review Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye , Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "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. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them." His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. Review Novel by J.D. Salinger, published in 1951. The influential and widely acclaimed story details the two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield after he ha

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Salinger, Jerome David
Publisher
Little, Brown; Back Bay Books; Little, Brown and Company
Published
2001
Language
EN
ISBN
9780758778574
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, American Fiction
Rating
3.79 / 5 (2,086,945 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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