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The Catcher In The Rye (Paperback, 1st Back Bay pbk. ed)
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The Catcher In The Rye (Paperback, 1st Back Bay pbk. ed)
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Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ?
particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in
Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and
Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is
fully of children. 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.
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