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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.
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The classic 1951 novel by J.D. Salinger is analyzed.
The title, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on J.D. Salinger, a chronology of the author's life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
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The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye,J.D. Salinger,Little, Brown,0316769487,Classics,Fiction,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Fiction / Classics,Modern fiction
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