Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books.
"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.

• ISBN10: 0316769177
• ISBN13: 9780316769174
• Publish Date: 30 January 2001 (first published 16 July 1951)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
• Imprint: Back Bay Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 277
• Language: English

Reviews

[cherryblossommj]

annotated...

[angelarenea9]

This is, without a doubt, the most pointless book ever. It doesn't even have enough of a point for me to dislike it. It real just is pointless. A huge waste of time. The main character is flat, and irritating. There is really no plot. Which makes for a bad book. I do not know how this book remained popular because it doesn't deserve it. Maybe the world should reevaluate what makes a classic book. Because this should never fall under that.

[remo]

Relato largo con las musitaciones internas de un adolescente medio malote y con angustia moral típica de su edad. Hay gente que dice que no resiste una relectura adulta, pero a mí me encantó a los 19 años (técnicamente adolescencia, y tal). Me sentía retratado en algunas cosas, las suficientes como para pensar que el libro era para mí. Lo devoré y le guardo muy buen recuerdo.