The Catcher in the Rye
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Published By Little, Brown and Company
Format Paperback
Number Of Pages 240
Publication Date 05/01/1991
ISBN 9780316769488
Dimensions 4.15 inches x 6.7 inches
"In Mr. Salinger we have a fresh voice. One can actually hear it speaking, and what is has to say is uncannily true, perceptive, and compassionate."
—Book-of-the-Month Club
"We read The Catcher in the Rye and feel like the book understands us in deep and improbable ways."
—John Green
"A contemporary master—a genius... Here was a man who used language as if it were pure energy beautifully controlled, and who knew exactly what he was doing in every silence as well as in every word."—New York Times Book Review
"Salinger's work meant a lot to me when I was a young person and his writing still sings now."
—Dave Eggers
"Brilliant, funny, meaningful.”—The New Yorker
"I don't think there's ever been anything like these characters in American literature.”
—Jennifer Lawrence
I grew up in New York City and understood the backdrop and how Holden’s mind worked. . . [The Catcher in the Rye] showed me what great storytelling was like.”
—Lenny Kravitz
"Salinger wrote one pitch-perfect masterpiece that will speakingly endure until the contorting condition known as adolescence disappears from our civilization.”
—Julian Barnes, author of THE SENSE OF AN ENDING
"...there are passages and phrases in Salinger that will stay with me forever; he is one of those rare writers whose work can actually be called "life-changing”.
—Jarvis Cocker, singer and musician
"He has an enormous cultural importance - you basically can't write about anyone between the ages of five and 35 without accidentally referencing Salinger.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer
"I would recommend The Catcher in the Rye to anyone trying to make sense of their life’s crossroads.”
—Uzo Aduba, award-winning actress
“The Catcher in the Rye is seminal. I must have read it eight times and every time there's something else.”
—Polly Stenham, playwright
"Probably my favorite book of all time because of the truthful, raw language — it sounds so modern.”
—Liz Phair, musician
"Catcher is a hugely influential novel for myself and surely any writer. I have never read anything else with the perfect flow and timing of that book.”
—Ross Raisin, novelist and short story writer
"Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature. Period. . . Anyone who hasn't walked the streets of New York with OG rebel Holden Caulfield is missing out on some major teen angst.”
—Josh Hutcherson, actor