Fiction
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
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J.D. Salinger's novel follows Holden Caulfield's restless, disillusioned wander through New York City after being expelled from prep school — a raw, first-person portrait of adolescent alienation and a longing to protect innocence from a world he sees as full of 'phonies.'
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