02312cam a2200373 i 4500 770506643 TxAuBib 20230424120000.0 190205s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018297930 9780316769532 centennial hardcover 0316769533 centennial hardcover 9780316450867 paperback 0316450863 paperback TxAuBib rda Salinger, J. D., 1919-2010, (Jerome David.) The catcher in the rye / J.D. Salinger. Centennial edition. New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, [2018] 277 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "The hero-narrator of this novel is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices -- but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep"--Jacket. 880 Lexile Framework (Mitinet Measures.) Accelerated Reader UG 4.7 11.0 5978. 20230424. Caulfield, Holden (Fictitious character) Fiction. Runaway teenagers Fiction. Teenage boys Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Bildungsromans. Fiction.