The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's *New Yorker* stories--particularly *A Perfect Day for Bananafish*, *Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut*, *The Laughing Man*, and *For Esme With Love and Squalor*--will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. 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.
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.
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Рік:
1951
Видавництво:
Little Brown
Мова:
english
ISBN 10:
0316769177
ISBN 13:
9780316769174
Файл:
EPUB, 235 KB
IPFS:
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english, 1951
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