I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.
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Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.
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fictional works, Runaway teenagers, Fiction, Adolescence, teenage boys, Runaway teenagers in literature, Brothers and sisters, Emotionally disturbed teenage boys, Preparatory schools, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction in English, Bildungsromans, Alienation in teenagers, Interpersonal relations, juvenile works, juvenile fiction, Fictional Works Publication Type, Classics, Caulfield, holden (fictitious character), fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, coming of age, Caulfield, holden (fictitious character), Salinger, j. d. (jerome david), 1919-2010, Adolescence in literature, Holden Caulfield (Fictitious character), Large type booksPeople
Holden Caulfield (Fictitious character), Holden Caufield, D.B. Caufield, Mr. Spencer, Robert Ackley, Ward Stradlater, Benedict Arnold, Maurice, Mr. Antolini, Carl Luce, Phoebe Caufield, Sally Hayes, Jane Gallagher, Sunny, Ernest Morrow, Cary Grant, Mal BrossardPlaces
New York (N.Y.), United States, New York, New York City, Southern California, Pencey Preparatory Academy, Agerstown, Central Park Zoo, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grand Central Station, Fifth Avenue, west, New York University, Museum of Natural History, Wicker Bar, Seton Hotel, New England, Columbia University, Rockefeller Center, Biltmore Theatre, Central Park, Seattle, Greenwich Village, Ernie's Nightclub, Pennsylvania, Penn StationTimes
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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 lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all 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.
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