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Story of Holden Caulfield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. 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...
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[2018]
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"Since its publication in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye has been a cultural phenomenon, not only as an assigned text for English courses but also as a touchstone for generations of alienated youth. As the focus of recent major films and a successful off-Broadway play attest, J.D. Salinger and his novel continue to fascinate the American reading public. But who was J.D. Salinger, and how did he come to write a novel whose impact continues to resonate...
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