The Catcher In The Rye
Overview
'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.'
The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. 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 Catcher In The Rye Published
The Catcher in the Rye Questions and Answers. The Question and Answer section for The Catcher in the Rye is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel. The Catcher in the Rye is the first and only novel by the American author J. This novel tells the story of Holden Caulfield, a problematic teenager who is experiencing a complicated period in his life and is isolated for numerous reasons from other characters in the novel. The Catcher in the Rye is a novel where not very much happens. And yet this story of a couple of days in the life of a teenager has sold tens of millions of copies since its release. There are not many other novels from the 1950s that can be found persistently hovering around the top 100 bestseller lists.