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The Catcher in the Rye

Name: The Catcher in the Rye
Author: J. D. Salinger
ISBN: 9780316769174

J. D. Salinger, 1951

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Carrie · S1 E1 · 11:40 · Carrie White · Backyard birdhouse

Stella's book: The Catcher in the Rye

Salinger published it in 1951, and Holden Caulfield is sixteen. Stella picked the book about a kid who can't stand anyone pretending and left it for a girl who has spent her life being told what to pretend. A novel English teachers assign, delivered like contraband.

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