The Catcher in the Rye
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Book Info
Author
J.D. Salinger
Word Count
60,000 words
based on page count
Pages
240 pages
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Edition Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Edition Publish Date
1991-05-01
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0316769487
ISBN-13: 9780316769488
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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