autoblog202: The Catcher in the Rye

Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his 16-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins: ... I smiled when I read about Edgar Marsalla's flatulence; I giggled when I pictured the perverts Holden spotted from his hotel room window and I roared when I eavesdropped to his "slightly intellectual" conversation with Carl Luce. But he made me cry as well. ...