Holden Caulfield; a young adult from an affluent New York / New England family, utterly lost, unwittingly saved. Holden narrates with a take-your-shoes-off, grab-a-beer attitude. Hes left his prep school (he hates it), and encounters a great cast of characters in bars and hotels across Pennsylvania and New York on his way home. His sister Phoebe, younger than him - perhaps in her purity, a foil for his bitter angst - is his catcher, in the rye of his life.
Masterpiece. The story wasnt any kind of crazy epic, like Les Miserables. It was strong though; simple yet layered, short temporally yet long on insight, straightforward in its telling yet tortured in its implications. I would say that this is the first time I have read a story with a powerful negative space. It was a delight to all five senses.
Masterpiece. The story wasnt any kind of crazy epic, like Les Miserables. It was strong though; simple yet layered, short temporally yet long on insight, straightforward in its telling yet tortured in its implications. I would say that this is the first time I have read a story with a powerful negative space. It was a delight to all five senses.
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