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Cover of “The Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger · 1951

277 pages

Expelled from prep school and drifting through New York before going home, teenager Holden Caulfield narrates a few days of restless encounters. He rails against adults he calls phonies while quietly grieving a brother and his own place in the world.

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Coming of Age, Outcast Hero, Unreliable Narrator, Melancholic

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