**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...

**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 alienationbefore 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