{"product_id":"the-catcher-in-the-rye-9780316769174","title":"The Catcher in the Rye","description":"Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly \u003ci\u003eA Perfect Day for Bananafish\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUncle Wiggily in Connecticut\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Laughing Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFor Esme--With Love and Squalor\u003c\/i\u003e, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Back Bay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316769174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2010 pg. 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e5978 \/ Catcher in the Rye\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.7 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"J. D. Salinger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636327739548,"sku":"9780316769174","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9f93f764-edc7-47de-b2c0-0fc2c5371fe9.jpg?v=1603841619","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-catcher-in-the-rye-9780316769174","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}