J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1951. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de coming of age-roman The Catcher in the Rye van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Ken Kesey. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel De vanger in het graan.
J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye recensie, review en informatie
- “He was the poet of youthful alienation before youth really knew what that was.” (Sunday Times)
- “He wrote a perfect novel and it changed US culture forever.” (Independent)
- “Tough-tender… It charts the miseries and ecstasies of an adolescent rebel [in] acidly humorous deadpan satire.” (TIME)
- “His work meant a lot to me when I was a young person and his writing still sings.” (Dave Eggers)
The Catcher in the Rye
- Auteur: J.D. Salinger (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1951
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Nederlandse vertaling: De vanger in het graan
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de roman uit 1951 van de Amerikaanse schrijver J.D. Salinger
It’s Christmas and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters – shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends.
The city is beautiful and terrible in all its lonesome neon glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.
The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic coming-of-age story: an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.