No problem: 'êthe boy grasped it to his heart as his father had, as the Rough Guide to his experience.'ê Recalling Salinger in The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik writes about a man in his 40s who loved Catcher in the Rye but feared that his own son would find the milieu too distant to connect. I also thought of book banning - that peculiarly American pastime in which Catcher has played such a prominent part since the mid-20th century - which figured significantly in my adolescence, too. Salinger had died, I remembered Holden Caulfield, the alientated teenage narrator of his 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye, riding in a cab through Manhattan - a key literary image of my own adolescence (although of course the book's appeal lay not in its images but in its attitude).
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