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The Catcher in the Rye

Jerome David Salinger · Literary Fiction

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coming of agesmall town

#164 All Time

About this book

Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.

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