Rank 21 of 100
The Catcher in the Rye
Synopsis
Holden Caulfield wanders New York for a few days after being kicked out of yet another school, calling almost everyone a phony and failing to say what he actually misses. Salinger’s voice is a teenager’s defense against grief, funny until it isn’t.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1951
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Coming of age, Literary
- Audience
- Young adult
- Era
- 1946–1999
- Movement
- Postwar
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 234 pages
- Reported copies
- About 65 million copies
- Kind
- Fiction