The catcher in the rye : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0316769533
- ISBN: 9780316769532
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Physical Description:
277 pages ; 21 cm
regular print - Publisher: New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
- Copyright: ©1979
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Published by Little, Brown and Company, July 1951. Text reset September 2010."--T.p. verso. |
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Subject: | Caulfield, Holden -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Runaway teenagers -- Fiction New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction |
Genre: | Bildungsromane. |
Available copies
- 4 of 6 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 0 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Creston Public Library | FIC SAL (Text) | 35140000986011 | Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-11 |
Summary:
"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."--Provided by the publisher.