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• Catcher in the Rye, The
  Catcher in the Rye, The

  noun

  a novel (1951) by J. D. Salinger.
• The Catcher in the Rye
  The Catcher in the Rye

  (1951) A novel by the American author J. D. Salinger. It relates the experiences of Holden Caulfield, a sensitive but rebellious youth who runs away from his boarding school.

Catcher in the Rye, The

American  

noun

1. a novel (1951) by J. D. Salinger.

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The Catcher in the Rye Cultural  

1. (1951) A novel by the American author J. D. Salinger. It relates the experiences of Holden Caulfield, a sensitive but rebellious youth who runs away from his boarding school.

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Catcher in the Rye, The The Catcher in the Rye

Next of kin in mood, manner and appeal to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, The Young Lovers uses a breezy class-of-'55 lingo to shine up the ancient story of boy-mates-girl.

From Time Magazine Archive

She reads all the time—in the halls, in the cafeteria— mostly novels with angsty protagonists: The Virgin Suicides, Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

The book of Genesis references Shiloh, with "teeth white from milk," while generations of readers have been forever haunted by Holden Caufield's description of a classmate with "mossy-looking" teeth in "The Catcher in the Rye."

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2023

I read To Kill A Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye is another classic I want to read.

From BBC ● May 29, 2022

He referenced The Catcher in the Rye, one of the books he’d assigned to Eve in English class.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2021

Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2020

Yilonia Kline, who my father said had helped solve four other missing persons cases, held my brother’s T-shirt, his copy of The Catcher in the Rye, and his previous year’s school picture in her hands.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley