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The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

  • FINISHED
  • Finished April 2019
  • First published 1951

fiction classics literary fiction

Holden Caulfield, expelled from his prep school, wanders around New York for a few days before going home.   He tells the story in his own voice, frank about his loneliness.