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Fiction

bemildred

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1. You'd have to have been there.

Reply to Ohio Dem (Original post)

Wed Aug 29, 2012, 06:53 AM

Aug 2012

An over-rated work, very much of its place and time.

Salinger was doing the touchy recluse artist thing, didn't write very much, and he got the fifties-young-white-person what-we-would-call-yuppie angst just right for the times. There were a lot of smart-rebellious-well-off-white-kid-in-private-school novels, bildungsromans, back then, the young and sensitive were worshipped.

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I finally got around to reading The Catcher in the Rye, and I have questions. (SPOILERS) [View all] Ohio Dem Aug 2012 OP

You'd have to have been there. bemildred Aug 2012 #1

Yes, it's basically about a 1950s teenager questioning the whole Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2012 #2