The Catcher in the Rye

<p><b>'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.'</b><br><br>The first of J. D. Salinger's four books to be published, <i>The Catcher in the Rye</i> is one of the most widely read and beloved of all contemporary American novels.<br><br>'The handbook of the adolescent heart' <i>The New Yorker</i></p> <p><b>'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.'</b><br><br>The first of J. D. Salinger's four books to be published, <i>The Catcher in the Rye</i> is one of the most widely read and beloved of all contemporary American novels.<br><br>'The handbook of the adolescent heart' <i>The New Yorker</i></p>