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Book Description
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today.
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
62 Reviews
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7 people find this helpful




Masterpiece
The story is simple but strongly engaging - it's about the brief adventure of a cynical youngster, Holden Caulfield, who hated "phony" stuff. He may not seem to be very likeable, but as you read the story you can clearly feel his pain, loneliness and disillusion in this world of phoniess and hypocri ... (continue)
larukucafe said on Mar 31, 2006 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Confusion saves the day. I really mean it.
When I was reading Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, I searched quite casually online and found out that it is often "studied" together with William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye".
I first heard of this book in McCourt's Teacher Man, when ... (continue)
phystory said on Nov 7, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Me lo ricordavo un po' noiosetto ed effettivamente lo è ancora, nonostante la lettura in lingua originale lo renda migliore perché l'inglese, almeno da parlante non nativa, non mi è parso invecchiato rispetto al presente, mentre l'unica traduzione italiana esistente era già vecchia quando ho letto i ... (continue)
CaffèAmaro said on Jan 22, 2012 | Add your feedback
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Maya 1978 said on Feb 11, 2012 about the Others edition | Add your feedback
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Vattelapesca?
Nella traduzione italiana, mi dicono, "and all" diventa "e vattelapesca". Passi il gergo giovanile del tempo che fu, ma "vattelapesca" invecchia (è bell'e morto), "and all" no. Ammesso che tutti i lettori italiani abbiano la stessa edizione del Giovane Holden, mi chiedo se possa piacere comun ... (continue)
Rossella said on Feb 9, 2012 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Lisa Talia Moretti said on Nov 30, 2011 about the School & Library Binding edition | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 208 Pages
- Edition: Rev Ed
- ISBN-10: 014023750X
- ISBN-13: 9780140237504
- Publisher: Generico
- Pub date: Jan 01, 2000
- Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Softcover, Unbound and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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