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The Catcher in the Rye

Published: 1969
Genre: Classics
Publisher: 译林出版社
Pages: 277
Words: 73404
URL: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye?ac=1&from_search=true

Reading measures

Accelerated Reader level: 4.7
AR interest level: UG — upper grades, 9–12
Lexile: 790L
Guided reading level: Z
Suggested reading age: ages 14–17

The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. 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. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.

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ISBN-13: 9787544750264
ISBN-10: 7544750264

The Catcher in the Rye

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