The Catcher in the Rye
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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,
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Book Information
Publisher | Penguin Young Readers Group |
Binding | Paperback (187 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 208 |
ISBN-10 | 014023750X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0140237504 |
Publication Date | /1994 |
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12/10/2012 KARTHIK MOORTHY said: this was my first book and read it when i was 17 ......................................
6/26/2008 Kerry McCaskill said:
tags: I recommend, I read
As with the movie Citizen Kane, its difficult to grasp just how groundbreaking Catcher in the Rye's in-your-face style must have been when it was originally published because its influence on modern storytelling and American culture has been so great. I always imagined that alienated teen Holden Ca... more
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