THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Th e Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. T he hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circu mstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes ...