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Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 

1st LB Books MassMarketPaperback Ed edition (1 May 1991)

Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316769487
ISBN-13: 978-0316769488

Product Dimensions: 11 x 1.5 x 17.2 cm

Review

Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfieldhas been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates thestory of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just afterhe's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgyeven today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. Itbegins,

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'llprobably want to know is where I was born and what my lousychildhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all beforethey had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but Idon't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. Inthe first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, myparents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anythingpretty personal about them."

His constant wry observations about what he encounters, fromteachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive)capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience ofalienation.

内容简介

Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ?particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily inConnecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love andSqualor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel isfully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE isan ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named HoldenCaulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult,secondhand de******ion, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvaniaand goes underground in New York City for three days. The boyhimself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make anyfinal comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing wecan say about Holden is that he was born in the world not juststrongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adultvoices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquentof all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelouslyfaithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed painand pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of thehigher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. Thepleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It isthere for the reader who can handle it to keep.

作者简介

美国重要的当代作家之一、《麦田里的守望者》作者杰罗姆?大卫?塞林格，于2010年1月27日在新罕布什尔州的家中去世，终年91岁。
塞林格的《麦田里的守望者》一书被认为是二十世纪美国文学的经典作品之一。《麦田里的守望者》由美国小布朗出版于1951年，是塞林格一部长篇小说。小说主人公霍尔顿是出身于富裕中产阶级的十六岁少年，在第四次被开除出学校之后，不敢贸然回家，只身在美国繁华的纽约城游荡了一天两夜，住小客店，逛夜总会，滥交女友，酗酒……他看到了资本主义社会的种种丑恶，接触了各式各样的人物，其中大部分是"假模假式的"伪君子。该书塑造了美国当代文学中早的反英雄形象之一,一经问世便风靡全球，在青少年中引起强烈共鸣。《麦田里的守望者》已经被译作多国文字，销量突破了6,500万本。它也跻身到20世纪畅销和有影响小说的行列

Born in New York in 1919, Jerome David Salinger dropped out ofseveral schools before enrolling in a writing class at ColumbiaUniversity, publishing his first piece ("The Young Folks") in Storymagazine. Soon after, the New Yorker picked up the heralded "APerfect Day for Bananafish," and more pieces followed, including"Slight Rebellion off Madison" in 1941, an early Holden Caulfieldstory. Following a stint in Europe for World War II, Salingerreturned to New York and began work on his signature novel, 1951's"The Catcher in the Rye," an immediate bestseller for itsiconoclastic hero and forthright use of profanity. Following thissuccess, Salinger retreated to his Cornish, New Hampshire, homewhere he grew increasingly private, eventually erecting a wallaround his property and publishing just three more books: "NineStories," "Franny and Zooey," "Raise High the Roof Beam, andCarpenters and Seymour: An Introduction." Salinger was marriedtwice and had two children. He died of natural causes on January27, 2010, in New Hampshire at the age of 91.