Few opening lines in American literature have lodged themselves so deeply in the cultural imagination as Holden Caulfield’s world-weary introduction: ‘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.’
Called ‘the handbook of the adolescent heart’ by The New Yorker, The Catcher in the Rye remains one of the most widely read and cherished American novels of the modern era — and the first of J. D. Salinger’s four published books.
ISBN 13: 9780241950432
Author: J. D. Salinger
