“I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's ...

Evison’s affinity for the oddball goes a long way toward keeping the book entertaining; unfortunately, as the coming-of-age theme becomes dominant, so does a sense that the novel is biding its time.

"Rebel in the Rye" explores J.D. Salinger's career and meditation practice. — -- J.D. Salinger’s controversial novel, “The Catcher in the Rye,” is considered by many to be an American ...

"`Catcher in the Rye' made a very powerful and surprising impression on me," said Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon, who read the book, as so many did, when he was in middle school.

A Swedish author is unlikely to win approval through the courts to publish his novel in the United States, because it is substantially similar to J.D. Salinger 's "The Catcher in the Rye," an ...

The 1951 publication of Mr. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" signaled the arrival of a brash new literary voice and style and was seen as the embodiment of postwar rebelliousness among ...

The young hero of J.D. Salinger’s 1951 novel “The Catcher in the Rye” is often described as one of the great unreliable narrators in American fiction — a character whose self-image is at ...

NEW YORK — Where do the ducks go in the winter? It’s a question Holden Caulfield, the moody teenage narrator of the classic novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” asks about the ducks in the ...

J.D Salinger’s classic “The Catcher in the Rye” deals with many things but what made it a bestseller is the blunt way it describes the angst and loneliness that comes with looking for who ...