SALINGER, J.D.
The Catcher In The Rye.
"If you really want to hear about it...": Book Club edition of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye; with the rare critical prospectus by Clifton Fadiman laid in
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
$850.00
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Item Number: RRB-149154
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Book club edition of Salinger's masterpiece, published the same year as the first. Octavo, original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Fine in a very good dust jacket with the Lotte Jacobi portrait of Salinger to the rear panel. With the prospectus by Clifton Fadiman laid in.
"The Catcher in the Rye is undoubtedly a 20th-century classic. It struck a popular note, particularly with young readers, who strongly identified with Holden Caulfield and his yearning for lost innocence… Salinger's novel was, and continues to be, a phenomenal success" (Parker, 300). "This novel is a key-work of the 1950s in that the theme of youthful rebellion is first adumbrated in it, though the hero, Holden Caulfield, is more a gentle voice of protest, unprevailing in the noise, than a militant world-changer… The Catcher in the Rye was a symptom of a need, after a ghastly war and during a ghastly pseudo-peace, for the young to raise a voice of protest against the failures of the adult world. The young used many voices— anger, contempt, self-pity— but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling" (Burgess, 99 Novels, 53-4).
The Catcher In The Rye.
$850.00
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