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Author Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010.

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

Publication Info. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1951.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  F SALINGER, J.    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION SALINGER    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION SALINGER    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F SALINGER    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F SALINGER c.2  Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  SALINGER, J. D.    DUE 05-21-24
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  SALINGER, JEROME D.    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  SALINGER, JEROME D.    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F SALINGER    DUE 05-11-24
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  F SALINGER c.2  Check Shelf

Description 277 pages ; 21 cm
Summary Story of Holden Caulfield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. 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.
Subject Runaway teenagers -- Fiction.
Teenage boys -- Fiction.
Caulfield, Holden (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
ISBN 0316769533
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