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A Readers Companion to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye by Beidler, Peter G.;Salinger, Jerome David is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This second edition of Peter G. Beidler's Readers Companion builds on the success of the first edition. It will be an indispensable guide for teachers, students, and general readers who want fully to appreciate Salinger's perennial bestseller. Now six decades old, The Catcher in the Rye contains references to people, places, books, movies, and historical events that will puzzle many twenty-first century readers. This edition includes a new section on reactions to Salinger's death in January, 2010. Beidler provides some 250 explanations to help readers make sense of the culture through which Holden Caulfield stumbles as he comes of age. He provides a map showing the various stops in Holden's Manhattan odyssey. Of particular interest to readers whose native language is not English is his glossary of more than a hundred terms, phrases, and slang expressions. In his introductory essay, "Catching The Catcher in the Rye," Beidler discusses such topics as the three-day time line for the novel, the way the novel grew out of two earlier-published short stories, the extent to which the novel is autobiographical, what Holden looks like, and the reasons for the enduring appeal of the novel. Th

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Author

Beidler, Peter G.;Salinger, Jerome David

Publisher

Coffeetown Press;Smashwords

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781603811170

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Fiction, History & Criticism