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The Catcher in the Rye

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Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect 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 fully 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 preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. ... more

Audio and Video

Back Bay Books
Category:
FICTION
Format:
TRADE PAPERBACK
Publish Date:
1/30/2001
Price:
$13.99/$15.50
ISBN:
9780316769174
Pages:
288
Size:
5-1/4" x 8"

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