As peripecias do adolescente Holden Cauldfiel nunha Nova York que se recupera da guerra influíron en sucesivas xeracións de todo o mundo. Na súa confesión sincera e sen andrómenas, moi lonxe da visión almibarada da adolescencia que imperou ata entón, Holden desvélanos a realidade dun raparigo enfrontado ao fracaso escolar, ás ríxidas normas dunha familia tradicional, á experiencia da sexualidade máis aló do mero desexo.
‘If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably
want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth’. The first of J. D. Salinger’s four books to be published, The
Catcher in the Rye is one of the most widely read and beloved
American novels.

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