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The iconic story of disaffected youth, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is a brief novel, but it packs a punch. Sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield runs away from his prep school to spend three days in New York, crossing paths with a slew of characters and musing all the while about the "phony" realities of his own life. Holden's voice is both hilariously precocious and depressingly frustrated as he attempts to navigate the process of growing up.