이 세상의 순수함, 그리고 아름다움을 극적으로 그린 고전.

학교에서 퇴학 당하고 사회에서 버림받은 16세 소년 홀든 콜필드가 아름다운 여동생을 통해

순수하고 깨끗한 영혼을 되찾아가는 여정이 주요 줄거리인데 그 내용들 하나하나가 순금처럼 아름답다.

출판 당시 많은 학교에서 금서로 지정됐다고 함.

- 대학생 추천도서

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. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.