The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (2001, Trade Paperback)

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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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PublisherBack Bay Books
ISBN-100316769177
ISBN-139780316769174
eBay Product ID (ePID)1720335

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AuthorJ.D. Salinger
FormatTrade Paperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001

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 PRODUCT_ORIGIN TAMBOURINE_MIGRATED
Lccn00-108915
Dewey Decimal813/.52
Dewey Edition23

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  • Not worthwhile to demand limited student time today. Other stories are far more suitable.

    Catcher was a good HS English class assignment years ago. Today, considering it's message and style and the world students presently live in, the story does not fit in at all. The story of the author and even a movie about this are fun watches. But, designating this as an English class assignment would be wasteful of limited student time Believe me. In the classroom for 18 years.

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  • Holden to you dreams...

    I picked up this book and started reading it and wondered if I picked up one of my journals and was reading that instead. I think at a time in our lives we all go through what Holden was going through. When you read it in book form or fiction it reassures that you’re okay.

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  • "Not worth reading"

    I like books with a plot or moral. This book had neither. I'd rather not have wasted my time reading it. The only other book I can say that about (after all the hype) was Harper Lee's "Go Set A Watchman".

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  • Amazing

    I love that the book was just like it said, in good condition and a plus is that it's a bigger book so it's easier to read than the original (small print)

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  • A good read

    great book

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  • Great Classic

    Great book

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  • Luv readin this book

    Good book.

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  • Salinger Classic

    A good time to re-read this, as it's required for my kid at school.

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  • Great book

    Interesting view of life through Holden Caufield

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  • Good book

    Good book. Classic.

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