{"product_id":"the-catcher-in-the-rye-9780140237504","title":"The Catcher in the Rye","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e is J . D. Salinger's world-famous novel of disaffected youth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHolden Caulfield is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with the clarity of a boy leaving childhood behind, \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e explores the world with disarming frankness and a warm, affecting charisma which has made this novel a universally loved classic of twentieth-century literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ. D. Salinger was born in 1919 and died in January 2010. He grew up in New York City, and wrote short stories from an early age, but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eof 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'. \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye \u003c\/i\u003ewas his first and only novel, published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated, taught and reprinted texts, and has sold some 65 million copies. His other works include the novellas \u003ci\u003eFranny and Zooey\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFor Esme with Love and Squalor\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRaise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters,\u003c\/i\u003e published with\u003ci\u003e Seymour - An Introduction.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salinger, J. D.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53153347600495,"sku":"9780140237504","price":9.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/4013\/5535\/files\/9780140237504.jpg?v=1779626537","url":"https:\/\/rechapter.com.au\/products\/the-catcher-in-the-rye-9780140237504","provider":"ReChapter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}