The catcher in the rye / J.D. Salinger.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, 1951Edition: First editionDescription: 8 unnumbered pages, 277 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0316769533
  • 9780316769532
  • 0316769177
  • 0316769487
  • 9780316769488
  • 9780316769174
  • 9780553149661
  • 0553149660
  • 9781439576649
  • 1439576645
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Catcher in the rye.DDC classification:
  • 813.5 S165c
LOC classification:
  • PZ4.S165 PS3537.A426
  • PS3537.A426 C3 1951
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City.Review: "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.
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In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City.

"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.

Collation: [unsigned, 1-9p16s]; 144 leaves, pages [8 unnumbered (first leaf blank)] [1-2] 3-277 [278-280 (blank)].

Starosciak, K. Salinger, A30a

Bixby, G. Salinger, A2a

First issued in black cloth, spine lettered in gold; in illustrated dust jacket depicting a carousel horse, designed by E. Michael Mitchell, printed in red, black and yellow, with black and white full page photoportrait of the author by Lotte Jacobi; price $3.00 (front flap); at foot of back flap, "The catcher in the rye is a Book-of-the-Month Club selection."

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.

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