num_pages: 192
description: "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."The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.
language: English
title: The Catcher in the Rye
titlecomplete: The Catcher in the Rye
characters: Robert Ackley, Sally Hayes, Allie Caulfield, Holden Caulfield, Stradlater, Phoebe Caulfield, D.B Caulfield
genres: Fiction, Classics, Coming Of Age, Young Adult, Read For School, American, High School, Literature, Novels, School
ratings_count: 3393819
places: New York City, New York, Agerstown, Pennsylvania
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Teen Read Award
category: Best All-Time-Fave, awardedAt: -568051200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin