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The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but
it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a
seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his
fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of
society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose
affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who
scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Lazy in style, full
of slang and swear words, it's a novel whose interest and appeal
comes from its observations rather than its plot intrigues (in
conventional terms, there is hardly any plot at all). Salinger's
style creates an effect of conversation, it is as though Holden is
speaking to you personally, as though you too have seen through the
pretences of the American Dream and are growing up unable to see
the point of living in, or contributing to, the society around you.
Written with the clarity of a boy leaving childhood, it deals with
society, love, loss, and expectations without ever falling into the
clutch of a cliche.
'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
first of J. D. Salinger's four books to be published, The Catcher
in the Rye is one of the most widely read and beloved of all
contemporary American novels. 'The handbook of the adolescent
heart' The New Yorker
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.
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.
A sharp and poignant snapshot of the crises of youth - from the
acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye 'Everything everybody
does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid
necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And
the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that,
you're conforming just as much only in a different way.' First
published in the New Yorker as two sequential stories, 'Franny' and
'Zooey' offer a dual portrait of the two youngest members of J. D.
Salinger's fictional Glass family. 'Salinger's masterpiece'
Guardian
In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.D. Salinger in 1919,
Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative
hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first
Salinger editions published in the 1950s and 1960s. '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 first of J. D. Salinger's
four books to be published, The Catcher in the Rye is one of the
most widely read and beloved of all contemporary American novels.
'The handbook of the adolescent heart' The New Yorker
A funny, poignant snapshot of young adulthood from the much-loved
author of The Catcher in the Rye Franny Glass and Lane Coutell are
the perfect campus couple: beautiful, intelligent, their whole
lives ahead of them. But one weekend when Franny is visiting, amid
the excitement of the big Yale game, something goes wrong and
tensions begin to surface. Are they really such a perfect match
after all? Franny's older brother is Zooey. They come from a
sophisticated yet highly eccentric family: all seven Glass siblings
are former child stars, all strange and enchanting and damaged in
their own way. And when Franny's anxiety spirals into a full-blown
breakdown, Zooey is the only one who might be able to save her. A
novel in two intertwining stories, Franny and Zooey brilliantly
captures the emotional strains and traumas of entering adulthood.
It is a gleaming example of the wit, precision and poignancy that
have made J.D. Salinger one of the most beloved American novelists
of the twentieth century.
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A collection of nine exceptional stories from the acclaimed author
of The Catcher in the Rye 'This is the squalid, or moving, part of
the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still
around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to
disclose, I've disguised myself so cunningly that even the
cleverest reader will fail to recognize me.' This collection of
nine stories includes the first appearance of J. D. Salinger's
fictional Glass family, introducing Seymour Glass in the
unforgettable 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'. 'The most perfectly
balanced collection of stories I know' Ann Patchett
For use in schools and libraries only. In an effort to escape the
hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, 16-year-old Holden
Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City.
The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came
out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS in
1955, SEYMOUR ? An Introduction in 1959. Whatever their differences
in mood or effect, they are both very much concerned with Seymour
Glass, who is the main character in my still-uncompleted series
about the Glass family. It struck me that they had better be
collected together, if not deliberately paired off, in something of
a hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly or undesirably close
contact with new material in the series. There is only my word for
it, granted, but I have several new Glass stories coming along ?
waxing, dilating ? each in its own way, but I suspect the less said
about them, in mixed company, the better. Oddly, the joys and
satisfactions of working on the Glass family peculiarly increase
and deepen for me with the years. I can't say why, though. Not, at
least, outside the casino proper of my fiction.
The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came
out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS in
1955, SEYMOUR ? An Introduction in 1959. Whatever their differences
in mood or effect, they are both very much concerned with Seymour
Glass, who is the main character in my still-uncompleted series
about the Glass family. It struck me that they had better be
collected together, if not deliberately paired off, in something of
a hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly or undesirably close
contact with new material in the series. There is only my word for
it, granted, but I have several new Glass stories coming along ?
waxing, dilating ? each in its own way, but I suspect the less said
about them, in mixed company, the better. Oddly, the joys and
satisfactions of working on the Glass family peculiarly increase
and deepen for me with the years. I can't say why, though. Not, at
least, outside the casino proper of my fiction.
Like Salinger's other collections of short stories, Franny and Zooey is a beloved work that millions have treasured. Generations of readers have been introduced to the fascinating and enigmatic Glass family through this remarkable work.
The Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in
Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing
Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme -- With Love and Squalor, Pretty
Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, and Teddy.
Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in
Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing
Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme -- With Love and Squalor, Pretty
Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, and Teddy.
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.
Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave
early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of
what he did and suffered there.
In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.D. Salinger in 1919,
Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative
hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first
Salinger editions published in the 1950s and 1960s. A collection of
nine exceptional stories from one of the great American voices of
the twentieth century. Witty, urbane and frequently affecting, For
Esme - with Love and Squalor sits alongside Salinger's very best
work - a gem that will be passed down for many generations to come.
'The most perfectly balanced collection of stories I know' Ann
Patchett
The author writes: Franny came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957, by Zooey. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambitious one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.
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