In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.
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There was no one like him'
Martin Amis '
He was the poet of youthful alienation before youth really knew what that was'
Sunday Times '
His work meant a lot to me when I was a young person and his writing still sings now'
Dave Eggers. it changed US culture forever'
Independent '
It was a very pure voice he had. '
A perfect novel ...
One of the greatest American novels of all time, The Catcher in the Rye is a classic coming-of-age story: an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.
The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield...
Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first Salinger editions published in the 1950s and 1960s.
In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.
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