Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
EAN num: 9780553104073
ISBN number: 0553104071
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Page Count: 214
Printing Date: 1976
Publishing house: Bantam
Sale Popularity Level: 44406
Studio: Bantam
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I just reread this book after 30 years, and I found it even better than I remember. It's such a great window into the teenage mind, a boy on the cusp of childhood and adulthood, a study of contradictions: both silly and serious, irrational and clear-eyed, exaggerated and stone-cold sober, muddled and laser-sharp, intolerant and deeply sensitive, unpredictable and responsible, unbearable and immensely likable.
This is the story of Holden, a 16-year-old who flunks out of prep school after prep school. Nothing and no-one is good enough, except for his dead brother, everyone and everything is phony, grey and white are the only colors. As he goes on one last sleepless adventure before his parents find out that he's been kicked out of yet another elite academy, Holden's despair grows to suicidal wishes, but a last visit with his kid sister and a former teacher provide connections that he cannot bear to lose.
What will he choose do? Drown in the duck pond in Central Park? Move to a dude ranch in Wyoming? Try another school? We the readers get to witness his internal dialog as his mind gyrates through needs and emotions, rational thought and crazy ideas. And we get to laugh, because at times Holden's dead-pan humour and the awkward situations he drags himself into are absolutely hilarious.
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