Research Catalog

Title

The catcher in the rye / J.D. Salinger.

Author

Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010.

Publication

Hampton, N.H. : Curley Large Print, 1993.

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Details

Description

347 pages (large print); 22 cm

Summary

Story of Holden Caulfield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. 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, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.

Subject

• Large type books

Genre/Form

• Large type books.
• Bildungsromans.
• Fiction.

Call Number

FIC S

ISBN

• 0792715160 (pbk.)
• 9780792715160

LCCN

92046198

OCLC

27187217

Author

Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010.

Title

The catcher in the rye / J.D. Salinger.

Imprint

Hampton, N.H. : Curley Large Print, 1993.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

FIC S