Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout, has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.
L'édition bilingue du roman mythique de J. D. Salinger, un chef-d'oeuvre universellement acclamé.
Issu d'une famille aisée à New York, Holden Caulfield intègre le pensionnat Pencey Prep en Pennsylvanie. Renvoyé après avoir échoué dans quatre matières, il entreprend alors une aventure de délinquance innocente. Entre taxis, boîtes de jazz et rencontres au sein du New York transi de froid de l'époque McCarthy, Holden va tenter de trouver sa place.
Une histoire captivante qui dresse un portrait incontournable de l'Amérique de l'après-guerre au travers de l'un des personnages les plus aimés de la littérature.
Après soixante ans, L'Attrape-coeurs, premier et unique roman de J. D. Salinger conserve toute sa puissance. Objet de réflexions sur la souffrance de l'adolescence et la transition de l'enfance à l'âge adulte, le livre reste un classique incontournable pour les jeunes de tous âges.
A funny, poignant snapshot of young adulthood from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the RyeFranny Glass and Lane Coutell are the perfect campus couple: beautiful, intelligent, their whole lives ahead of them. But one weekend when Franny is visiting, amid the excitement of the big Yale game, something goes wrong and tensions begin to surface. Are they really such a perfect match after all?Franny''s older brother is Zooey. They come from a sophisticated yet highly eccentric family: all seven Glass siblings are former child stars, all strange and enchanting and damaged in their own way. And when Franny''s anxiety spirals into a full-blown breakdown, Zooey is the only one who might be able to save her. A novel in two intertwining stories, Franny and Zooey brilliantly captures the emotional strains and traumas of entering adulthood. It is a gleaming example of the wit, precision and poignancy that have made J.D. Salinger one of the most beloved American novelists of the twentieth century.>
A haunting and deeply personal portrait of family tragedy from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the RyeBuddy Glass is the second-eldest son in the eccentric and enchanting Glass family. He is on leave from the army during World War II, attending the wedding of his eldest brother, Seymour. But the wedding is not a happy one: it is overcast by a sense of strange suspense. Perhaps everyone is aware, on some level, of what is to come. And in the years after the tragedy, Buddy is haunted by memories of Seymour, turning over in his mind everything that came to pass with his deeply complex and unhappy older brother.With painful tenderness and great subtlety, Salinger unfolds a story of family tragedy from the point of view of a character - Buddy - who has long been suspected to be a portrait of the author himself.>
Includes two of the author's critically acclaimed stories. This title contains a story that recounts the author's meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat. It also contains a story that features the Glass family, the loveable and idiosyncratic family.
"DeDaumier-Smith's Blue Period," "Teddy," and "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" are among the nine works in a collection of Salinger's perceptive and realistic short stories
