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Catcher in the Rye
| Author: | JD Salinger
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| Language: | English | |
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Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
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... He used to keep them underthe bed, instead of on the rack, so that nobody'd see them standing next to mine. Itdepressed holy hell out of me, and I kept wanting to throw mine out or something, oreven trade with him. Mine came from Mark Cross, and they were genuine cowhide andall that crap, and I guess they cost quite a pretty penny. But it was a funny thing. Here'swhat happened. What I did, I finally put my suitcases under my bed, instead of on therack, so that old Slagle wouldn't get a goddam inferiority complex about it....