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A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (Second Edition), by Peter G. Beidler
The second edition of A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye by Peter G. Beidler is a valuable and entertaining resource for American literature students as well as fans of J.D. Salinger and his ground-breaking novel. “For those of us who have not read or taught The Catcher in the Rye for…
Read MoreThank you, Mr. Salinger, by Peter Beidler
Thank you, Mr. Salinger The death of J. D. Salinger left me feeling that I had lost a boyhood friend. Salinger himself was never a personal friend of mine, but his creation Holden Caulfield was. Holden was one of the very few who understood my young self, who shared my amusement in the sound of…
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