The catcher in the rye
J. D. Salinger (Author),E. Michael Mitchell,Lotte Jacobi (Photographer),Little, Brown and Company (Publisher)
"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"--Jacket
Print Book,English, 1951
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Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1951
Young adult fiction
8 unnumbered pages, 277 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
9780316769532, 9780316769174, 9780553149661, 9781439576649, 9780316769488, 0316769533, 0316769177, 0553149660, 1439576645, 0316769487
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A perfect day for bananafish
Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut
Just before the war with the Eskimos
The laughing man
Down at the dinghy
For Esme, with love and squalor
Pretty mouth and green my eyes
De Daumier-Smith's blue period
Teddy
Collation: [unsigned, 1-9¹⁶]; 144 leaves, pages [8 unnumbered (first leaf blank)] [1-2] 3-277 [278-280 (blank)]