The catcher in the rye

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J. D. Salinger: The catcher in the rye (2013, Ishi Press International)

216 pages

English language

Published Aug. 13, 2013 by Ishi Press International.

ISBN:
978-4-87187-619-3
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OCLC Number:
863476549

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4 stars (9 reviews)

A 16-year old American boy relates in his own words the experiences he goes through at school and after, and reveals with unusual candour the workings of his own mind. What does a boy in his teens think and feel about his teachers, parents, friends and acquaintances?

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The question about giving out your opinion about The Catcher In The Rye is that you feel like everything that you have to say has already been said by everyone else.
But the truth is that human experience (like opinions) are most of the times different inspite of similar. And that's what I believe is the biggest trumph of this book.
I must confess: I was hatting it in the first pages. It was looking like a pointless and superficial narration. I won't say it isn't. But I continued and started to believe there was more to it. Holden's complex personality reflecting the fight he was enduring with his growth and the contradictions he was becoming aware of generated not only some empathy with me as some feeling of needing to observe him. Because the representation of this human experience was quite well done in a perspetive of one person …

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Subjects

  • Runaway teenagers
  • Holden Caulfield (Fictitious character)
  • Fiction

Places

  • New York (N.Y.)