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REVIEWS: The Catcher In The Rye
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NY Times
The Guardian
GoodReads
Book Companion
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. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his
heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.
Characters: 69. Amazon rating: 4 stars. Genre: Classic/Fiction.
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McBurney
School on Wikipedia. |
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Ring
Lardner on Biography. |
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Baker's Wife on Wikipedia. |
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Comin'
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Roof Blues with Louis Armstrong on YouTube. |
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