by J. D. Salinger · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241950432
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«The Catcher in the Rye» is J. D. Salinger's coming-of-age novel, published by Penguin in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old expelled from his fourth school, wanders through New York and recounts in the first person his view of a world he perceives as full of phoniness. The novel portrays adolescence, alienation, and the loss of innocence through his colloquial and disillusioned voice.
It was J. D. Salinger's first and only novel, originally published in 1951 and considered a classic of twentieth-century literature.
Aimed at readers of classic literature and coming-of-age stories, with particular appeal among young audiences.
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.
