Catcher In The Rye, Paperback Book, By: Salinger J D

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lovely childhood was like, and how my parents were busy and everything before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient son of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, second-hand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.