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The catcher in the rye jd salinger3/28/2024 His code is the survival of the flippest, and he talks a lingo as forthright and gamy, in its way, as a soldier’s. A lanky, crew-cut 16, well-born Holden Caulfield is sure all the world is out of step but him. In his tough-tender first novel, The Catcher in the Rye (a Book-of-the-Month Club midsummer choice), he charts the miseries and ecstasies of an adolescent rebel, and deals out some of the most acidly humorous deadpan satire since the late great Ring Lardner. “In fact, all of my best friends are children.” And Salinger has written short stories about his best friends with love, brilliance and 20-20 vision. “Some of my best friends are children,” says Jerome David Salinger, 32. That’s not all the critic had to say about the book. “He can understand an adolescent mind without displaying one.” readers, the prize catch in The Catcher in the Rye may well be Novelist Salinger himself,” TIME’s original 1951 review of the book posited. But his books, the story suggests, contain plenty of information about the man who wrote them.
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