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The Catcher in the Rye | 
 enlarge | Author: J. D. Salinger
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 102
Media: Paperback
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 014023750X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140237504
ASIN: 014023750X
Publication Date: August 4, 1994
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Product Description
Tells the story of a seventeen-year-old dropout who has been kicked out of his fourth school. This novel dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.
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Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent". Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his 16-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins: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. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two haemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive), capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. --Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk Review
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent". Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his 16-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins: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. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two haemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive), capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. --Amazon.com
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Hidden depth? July 20, 2010
purple rain (UK)
I have just finished reading the book and I can see why some of the other reviewers love it and others hate it. At first it seems a little superficial, repetitive and with a plot as thin as a piece of rice paper. However, if you can put that to one side as well as the brassy repetitive style and dig deeper, I do think this novel holds some nuggets of gold.
That cynical youth Holden seeing all others around him as 'phoney' is really a reflection on himself. He sees himself as having no depth and transfers this to those around him - they are but a mirror to his inner self. Even worse, he fears becoming like them, using success, money, status, position to paper over the cracks. In truth I think there is a little of Holden in all of us. Once cynical young people now moulded into the exact opposite of what said we would be. I think that the essence of the book can be summed up with one of my favourite quotes (one Salinger attributes to a Wilhelm Stekel - who was a psychoanalyst and follower of Freud);
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
This sums up Holden and maybe more of us than we would care to admit.I recommend reading this book and persevering with it. I am sure, that like me, that you will find a little nugget in there that will make it worthwhile.
Catcher in the Rye July 1, 2010
M. Tredgett Ruggles (england)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Was happy with my purchase. My daughter wanted to read the book, and the P&P was good along with the price.
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