Books Details
Author : J.D. Salinger Pages : 277 pages Publisher : Back Bay Books Language :
eng ISBN-10 : 5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye ISBN-13 : 9780316769174
Books Descriptions
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,
