‘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.’<\/b><\/p>\n
The first of J. D. Salinger’s four books to be published, The Catcher in the Rye<\/i> is one of the most widely read and beloved of all contemporary American novels.<\/p>\n
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