The Catcher in the Rye -

J. D. Salinger

Turtleback Books

1951

234 páginas

7h 48m

ISBN-13: 9780808514039

Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"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. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."

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

Resenhas (293)

5 (Perfeito)

If a body catch a body....

O livro não é dotado de nenhum acontecimento explosivo ou epifanista. Mas o caminho do jovem Holden da primeira a última palavra, refletem muito a minha pessoa. Caulfield sem dúvida sempe foi um pedaço meu, mesmo antes de eu conhecer sua história, muito parecida com a minha.
Eu também um dia quero ser um apanhador que pega criancinhas de abismos sem fundo. Apesar de ser breve e linear, tem uma profundidade para qualquer um que se enxergue nessa história.