num_pages: 80
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: Annotations and Study Aids
titlecomplete: The Catcher in the Rye: Annotations and Study Aids
characters: Sally Hayes, Holden Caulfield, Allie Caulfield, Stradlater, Robert Ackley, D.B Caulfield, Phoebe Caulfield
genres: Read For School, Coming Of Age, American, School, Novels, Young Adult, Literature, High School, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 3393564
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: Klett