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The Catcher in the Rye.
Contributor(s): Salinger, J. D. (Author)

ISBN: 0316769533 ISBN-13: 9780316769532
Publisher: Little Brown and Company

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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 1951
Annotation: 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.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 51004713

Lexile Measure: 790(Not Available)

Physical Information: 1.11" H x 5.33" W x 8.43" L (0.89 lbs) 288 pages

Themes:
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Locality - New York, N.Y.
- Geographic Orientation - New York
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.

Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product

Review Citations: Booklist 02/15/1992 pg. 1101
Booklist 11/15/1999 pg. 601
People 07/08/2013 pg. 47

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 5978
Reading Level: 4.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 11.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
The brilliant, funny, meaningful novel (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books.
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.
The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. 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.

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