Holden Caulfield made his debut in The Catcher in the Rye and because of that particular work his name is now synonymous with "cynical adolescent." This book he tells the events he goes trhough in the couple of days of his sixteen-year-old life, days when he he's been expelled from prep school. The author of this novel, J.D. Salinger, tells that events in such slang that even today it still sounds edgy. It’s also the reason this novel is included in banned book lists.
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