The catcher in the rye
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Published:
Harmondsworth : Penguin in association with Hamilton, 1958, c1951.
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218 pages ; 19 cm.
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Story of Holden Caufield 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 for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices -- but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.
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Language:
English
ISBN:
0140012486 (pbk) :
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 4.7, 11 Points
Lexile measure:
790

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Originally published: London : Hamilton, 1951.
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Accelerated Reader AR,UG,4.7,11.0,5978.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Salinger, J. D. 1. (19581951). The catcher in the rye. Harmondsworth, Penguin in association with Hamilton.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Salinger, J. D. 1919-2010. 19581951. The Catcher in the Rye. Harmondsworth, Penguin in association with Hamilton.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Salinger, J. D. 1919-2010, The Catcher in the Rye. Harmondsworth, Penguin in association with Hamilton, 19581951.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Salinger, J. D. 1919-2010. The Catcher in the Rye. Harmondsworth, Penguin in association with Hamilton, 19581951.

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