Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme-

Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism.

Collects essays that look at J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" through a philosophical approach.

J. D. Salinger wrote one of the most famous books ever written, The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger wrote many stories and, in 1941, after several rejections, Sali

Literary ombudsman John Crace never met an important book he didn't like to deconstruct. From Salman Rushdie to John Grisham, Crace retells the big books in jus