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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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"In Mr. Salinger we have a fresh voice. One can actually hear it speaking, and what is has to say is uncannily true, perceptive, and compassionate."―Clifton Fadiman, Book-of-the-Month Club News

"We read The Catcher in the Rye and feel like the book understands us in deep and improbable ways."―John Green

"A contemporary master--a genius...Here was a man who used language as if it were pure energy beautifully controlled, and who knew exactly what he was doing in every silence as well as in every word."―Richard Yates, New York Times Book Review

"Salinger's work meant a lot to me when I was a young person and his writing still sings now."―Dave Eggers

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J. D. Salinger was born in New York City on January 1, 1919, and died in Cornish, New Hampshire, on January 27, 2010. His stories appeared in many magazines, most notably The New Yorker. Between 1951 and 1963 he produced four book-length works of fiction: The Catcher in the Rye; Nine Stories; Franny and Zooey; and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour--An Introduction. The books have been embraced and celebrated throughout the world and have been credited with instilling in many a lifelong love of reading.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0316769487
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company (May 1, 1991)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 7543321726
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316769488
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13+ years, from customers
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 790L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.15 x 0.8 x 6.7 inches

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Born in New York in 1919, Jerome David Salinger dropped out of several schools before enrolling in a writing class at Columbia University, publishing his first piece ("The Young Folks") in Story magazine. Soon after, the New Yorker picked up the heralded "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and more pieces followed, including "Slight Rebellion off Madison" in 1941, an early Holden Caulfield story. Following a stint in Europe for World War II, Salinger returned to New York and began work on his signature novel, 1951's "The Catcher in the Rye," an immediate bestseller for its iconoclastic hero and forthright use of profanity. Following this success, Salinger retreated to his Cornish, New Hampshire, home where he grew increasingly private, eventually erecting a wall around his property and publishing just three more books: "Nine Stories," "Franny and Zooey," "Raise High the Roof Beam, and Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction." Salinger was married twice and had two children. He died of natural causes on January 27, 2010, in New Hampshire at the age of 91.

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OBrien

1 Point is to Acknowledge the Classic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 23, 2023

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I really didn't know what to expect when I read Catcher. I've always been "aware" of it - but the hype surrounding it...the negative hype...made me wary.

I actually enjoyed Holden Caulfield. Or maybe "enjoyed" is the wrong word. I get him. And I don't see where the horrible stigma that follows this book comes from. I didn't see him as a "rebel," per se - like so many of the self-styled counter-culturalists of the day. I also don't see him in any other negative light.

I found Holden to be a sad figure. Stuck in a world where his brother still lived and he might have found some direction. To say more is to spoil much of his short "lost weekend." So I'll refrain. But suffice to say, Catcher in the Rye is well worth reading, and not at all the pearl-clutching offense it's built up to be.

I'd have given it three stars due to some overused words & phrases too insignificant to name here, but I added a star for the simple fact that it is, no matter how it's received, a classic.

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Jeffrey Dajos

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This book made me drop out of college. I was studying social work. Because I dropped out I ended up in the Navy, got the GI bill and earned an engineering degree and an MBA. Seriously. This book changed my life that much.

If you're an adult, it might not work like it did for me.

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Maybe I will. Maybe I won't.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 4, 2023

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Have you ever walked walked around with a chip on your your shoulder hoping that someone would try to knock it off so that you would have a release for all of the anger that was weighing so heavily on you that you could hardly move forward with your life because that anger had become such a burden that you could hardly function? Have you ever withdrawn into your own shell and talked to no one but yourself because you knew that no one could possibly understand what you were feeling because you didn't even know yourself? Because of the tremendous notoriety that this book had always generated, I felt that it was incumbent upon me as an avid reader to judge for myself. Why was this book so controversial? Why had it been banned from so many school libraries? The answer is--not for the reasons that I had always assumed. This book is essentially a monologue that becomes a stream of consciousness as a young man tries desperately to determine the who, what, when, and where of his life. If you have ever engaged in an internal dialogue, you, like Holden Caulfield, use terminology in your internal debate that you would not use in polite society. However, to remove those words to make the book more socially acceptable would be to destroy the usefulness of this book in a discussion of teenage angst in a psychology or sociology class. It should become mandatory reading for any angry young man whose anger manifests itself in self-destructive behavior. Finally, I love an author whose work seems to have no real point until the reader gets to the very last page when the writer pulls all of the loose ends together into a nice neat knot so that the reader closes the book, stares off into space and says to himself, "Now I get it".

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 24, 2023

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So as someone who loves True Crime many people will talk about how some of these awful people read this book. It interested me for years that I had to know why and after I definitely understand that it makes me question why I love it.

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R. E. Miller

Smells Like Teen Angst

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While Salinger's book is often listed in the top 100 novels, it leaves me a little baffled. It certainly is an interesting expose of teenage angst. Holden Caulfield is a classic rebel without a cause but I much prefer Steinbeck's version. It's a quick read at a little over 100 pages and certainly worth the time.

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A classic!

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It made me laugh out loud, incredible work. No one comes close to this artistry in modern time. Read and reread.

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Alice and Rich

It's a legendary book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 8, 2023

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It was slow, boring with a lot of God Da** and references to Christ in a foul manner. I would have liked he spoke more of his reason he ended up in a psychiatric hospital. That would have been more interesting

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classic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 30, 2023

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Although sometimes it feel a victim of the time it was written, There are still so many elements that still wrong true. It feels there is a little bit of Holden Canfield in all of us.

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Dae'rienne

mieszane odczucia

Reviewed in Poland 🇵🇱 on April 5, 2022

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nie jest to standardowa wersja książki a coś w rodzaju wersji kieszonkowej. jest dużo mniejsza od standardowego wydania, na szarym papierze, okładka nie jest błyszcząca a druk jest bardzo mały.

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Woodstock

Rubbish book not the classic book the literature snobs would have you believe

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 28, 2018

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This book is rubbish. I bought and read it after hearing it was a brilliant classic but I honestly think people probably think the same as I do but to not appear uneducated or think they have to suck up to the literature snobs they claim it’s wonderful!! It’s not!!

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Catcher in the Why?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 20, 2021

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I came late to Salinger’s revered novel about a privileged but damaged sixteen year old who was privately schooled near New York in the Fifties. It is on every book list: Top 100 books, Most Influential Books, Novels You Must Read Before You Die etc... Therefore it almost impossible to approach this book without the sway of its classic status impacting the readers opinion of its quality. With literary academics, critics and English lecturers saying it is should be on everyone’s reading list, how does anyone read and review it without already being subconciously convinced that it must be good? I will try.

The author has created a complex character who is as flawed as he is interesting. Through the memorable and inventive dialogue lines he was given by Salinger, teenage Holden speaks to the reader during two days of his troubled life. It would be a cynical reader who fails to find empathy with the character. He is burdened by the loss of a sibling, is emotionally at the crossroads of adolescence and adult life and carries academic expectations of an expensive private boarding school in post-war America. With its considered prose and detailed examination of character, it is understandable why this book draws such acclaim.

The problem I had with the novel is that it only has one voice; one that over 198 pages becomes annoying to the point of wanting to close it. At times I felt like one of Holden's school roommates who cannot escape his hubris. Try to imagine two whole days babysitting a teenage boy who never stops talking and has a fixation with sex, alcohol and his own ego.

If you wanted to create a comic version of Catcher in the Rye set in Britain, you would probably end up with The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. More closely akin to Catcher in the Rye is the Booker prize winning novel Vernon God Little by D.B.C Pierre. Narrated in the first person voice of a teenager at the opposite end of the social and economic scale to Holden, it is in my opinion a better book than Catcher.

Going against the literary crowd, this novel would not make my top 100 books, but I will thank it for reminding me to go back and re-read Vernon God Little again. I think I will give Adrian Mole a miss though.

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You're all a bunch of phonies

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 8, 2018

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I had heard of this novel for many years before I got around to reading it and I had no idea what it was about when I started it. But I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found the use of language excellent and the lead character extremely likeable. Many of the scenes and phrases used in the book stayed with me long after I put it down and made me think. This book is also extremely short, you can read it in a week easy so give it a go. I would highly recommend it.

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Thayná

Perfeito !

Reviewed in Brazil 🇧🇷 on May 24, 2019

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Gente, vi muitas pessoas criticando a qualidade do livro. Eu adquiri Capa Comum, e sim, o livro é bem leve, a capa não é tão dura e resistente quanto a capa das edições nacionais e também não tem orelhas. Isso se deve ao fato de que as edicões de capa comum importadas são diferentes das de capa comum no Brasil; são mais simples. Eu sugiro que pesquisem sobre isso antes de adquirir este livro, pois ele é importado. Comprei ciente disso. Eu particularmente não tenho o que reclamar quanto a qualidade, adorei. Agora, quanto a versão econômica não sei, não posso dizer.

As folhas da edição de capa comum são amareladas e a leitura é confortável. A capa é fosca e com relevo dourado. O vocabulário é simples, nada difícil de compreender, ideal para níveis semi-intermediários, intermediários ou avançados. Quanto à historia, isso depende do gosto particular de cada pessoa, mas ela é uma das minhas favoritas desde a adolescência. Incrível, cheia de críticas sociais de uma forma simples e leve. Mas depende do seu gosto de leitura.

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