by J. D. Salinger · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140237504
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«The Catcher in the Rye» is J. D. Salinger's coming-of-age novel, published by Penguin in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Holden Caulfield, a teenager expelled from his prep school, wanders three days through New York questioning the falseness of the adult world. Between youthful alienation and loss of innocence, the novel portrays the search for identity in postwar American youth.
Revised 1994 edition that reproduces the original American text for the first time in Penguin Books. The work was originally published in 1951 and is J. D. Salinger's only novel.
For high school students who want to read the work in its original language and for those seeking a classic about the transition to adulthood.
Jerome David Salinger was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine in 1940, before serving in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker, which published much of his later work.
