num_pages: 220
description: 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. 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.
language: English
title: The Catcher in the Rye
titlecomplete: The Catcher in the Rye
characters: Sally Hayes, Stradlater, D.B Caulfield, Phoebe Caulfield, Allie Caulfield, Robert Ackley, Holden Caulfield
genres: Fiction, American, Coming Of Age, School, Young Adult, Literature, Read For School, Classics, Novels, High School
ratings_count: 3394986
places: Agerstown, Pennsylvania, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Teen Read Award
category: Best All-Time-Fave, awardedAt: -568051200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.