The Catcher in the Rye

In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.D. Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions – with artwork and text based on the very first Salinger editions published in the 1950s and 1960s.

The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield…One of the greatest American novels of all time, The Catcher in the Rye is a 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.

‘A perfect novel … it changed US culture forever’ -Independent

‘It was a very pure voice he had. There was no one like him’ Martin Amis ‘He was the poet of youthful alienation before youth really knew what that was’ -Sunday Times

‘His work meant a lot to me when I was a young person and his writing still sings now‘ -Dave Eggers