Um dos romances mais revolucionários do século XX, O apanhador no campo de centeio é a representação definitiva da juventude na literatura. Com mais de 70 milhões de cópias vendidas desde seu lançamento em 1951, o livro influenciou e marcou gerações de leitores com sua visão crua da adolescência, sua prosa ágil e desbocada e seu humor feroz e anárquico. Esta nova edição que chega agora ao leitor brasileiro tem tradução do premiado Caetano W. Galindo e, pela primeira vez, traz a capa original de seu lançamento.

É Natal, e Holden Caulfield conseguiu ser expulso de mais uma escola. Com uns trocados da venda de uma máquina de escrever e portando seu indefectível boné vermelho de caçador, o jovem traça um plano incerto: tomar um trem para Nova York e vagar por três dias pela grande cidade, adiando a volta à casa dos pais até que eles recebam a notícia da expulsão por alguém da escola. Seus dias e noites serão marcados por encontros confusos, e ocasionalmente comoventes, com estranhos, brigas com os tipos mais desprezíveis, encontros com ex-namoradas, visitas à sua irmã Phoebe -- a única criatura neste mundo que parece entendê-lo -- e por dúvidas que irão consumi-lo durante sua estadia, entre elas uma questão recorrente: afinal, para onde vão os patos do Central Park no inverno? Acima de todos esses fatos, preocupações e pensamentos, paira a inimitável voz de Holden, o adolescente raivoso e idealista que quer desbancar o mundo dos "fajutos", num turbilhão quase sem fim de ressentimento, humor, frases lapidares, insegurança, bravatas e rebelião juvenil.

Just some run-on ramblings about some teenager wandering around Manhattan after he gets booted out of a crumby prep school for about the third time. I never read the thing in high school and all. And it's supposed to be some kind of classic. I guess to a jaded adult it just seems kinda outdated and phony. But I wouldn't argue with you if you wanted to say you loved it. I really wouldn't. Ugh. ( )

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When I first read this book I was pretty much the same age as Holden Caulfield but much less worldly than him so I thought he was sophisticated and cool. Reading it now, I just feel sorry for him. He never seems to have dealt with the death of his brother nor have his parents. He is obviously becoming an alcoholic and he needs a lot of therapy. I do find his bonds with his sister and his older brother to give hope. Recently, a friend returned some letters I had written her when I was that age. The similarities between my writing and phrasing and the way Salinger has Holden write are dead on. Salinger really caught that teenage angst. ( )

I get that this is an important novel in that it was one of the first that really spoke to young adults, and in that sense was one of the first ever young adult novels (even though it was originally written for adults). It also makes sense that kids who are feeling like outsiders, who are riding the teenage manic/depressive waves, would find a kindred spirit in Holden.

As an adult reader I just couldn't shake the feeling that Holden needed to stop being so negative and down on everyone. The only time he liked a person or a thing was when it was in the past, and he could remember it any way he liked. While this is very true to teenage life - I certainly lived that way - it is super annoying to have to hear about it. Glad I read it so now I can get people's references to it, but I probably wouldn't read it again. ( )