The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger · 1951 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Expelled from his fourth school, Holden Caulfield leaves days early rather than face his parents and spends a long weekend loose in New York. He drinks, telephones people he half wants to see, and keeps circling back to his younger sister and to a brother he lost. A boy raging at phoniness while trying to catch children before they fall.

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• alludes to ↑ The Great Gatsby
  F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 CE · Novel
• influenced by ↑ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  Mark Twain · 1884 CE · Novel

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