The Catcher in the Rye
by Salinger, J.D
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0316769487
- ISBN 13
- 9780316769488
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
"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." -From the publisher.
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.
Synopsis
Published in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye has become a common part of high school and college curricula throughout the English-speaking world and has been translated into all major languages. Since its publication with a $3.00 sticker, it has reportedly sold more than 65 million copies. The novel's antihero, Holden Caulfield, has become a cultural icon for teenage rebellion. Due to its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and teenage angst, it has frequently been met with censorship challenges in the United States making it one of the most challenged books of the 20th century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63860
- Title
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Author
- Salinger, J.D
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0316769487
- ISBN 13
- 9780316769488
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- coming of age, fiction, new
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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