The catcher in the rye / J.D. Salinger.
The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316769174
- ISBN: 0316769177
- ISBN: 9780316769532
- ISBN: 0316769533
- ISBN: 0316769487
- ISBN: 9780316769488
- ISBN: 0812415280
- ISBN: 9780812415285
- ISBN: 0553104071
- ISBN: 055311722X
- ISBN: 9780553117226
- ISBN: 0553250256
- ISBN: 0606048871
- ISBN: 0808514032
- ISBN: 9780808514039
- ISBN: 9781439576649
- Physical Description: 277 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
- Copyright: ©1951
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "Published by Little, Brown and Company, July 1951. Text reset September 2010"--Title page verso.Publisher and pagination may vary.
- Target Audience Note:
- 790L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.7 11 5978.
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- Caulfield, Holden (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Runaway teenagers > Fiction.
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- Novels.
Available copies
- 118 of 137 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 5 of 6 copies available at Appalachian Regional Library.
Holds
- 2 current holds with 137 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Ashe County Public Library | F SAL (Text) | 50503300235415 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | F SAL (Text) | 50503300432954 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Traphill Branch Library | F SAL (Text) | 50501011044688 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Western Watauga Branch Library | YAPB SALINGER (Text) | 50502010784274 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Wilkes County Public Library | YA SAL (Text) | 50501011354368 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Wilkes County Public Library | YA SAL (Text) | 50501100380746 | Young Adult Fiction | Checked out | 12/13/2025 |
