LEADER 00000cam 2200349Ia 4500 001 780948590 003 OCoLC 005 20150310172522.0 008 120319t20101951nyu 000 f eng d 010 00108915 020 9780241950432 040 UBF|beng|cUBF|dPZT|dPALES|dWKM|dOCLCF|dOCLCO|dKSU|dUtOrBLW 043 n-us-ny 050 4 PS3537.A426|bC3 2010 082 04 813/.54|222 100 1 Salinger, J. D.|q(Jerome David),|d1919-2010 245 14 The catcher in the rye /|cJ.D. Salinger 260 New York :|bLittle, Brown and Company,|c2010 300 228 pages ;|c21 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 "Published by Little, Brown and Company, July 1951. Text reset September 2010."--Title page verso 520 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 650 0 Caulfield, Holden (Fictitious character)|vFiction 650 0 Runaway teenagers|vFiction 650 0 Teenage boys|vFiction 651 0 New York (N.Y.)|vFiction 655 0 American fiction|y20th century 655 7 Bildungsromans.|2gsafd 655 7 Fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423787
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