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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden

Preface -

This book has been steeped in controversy since it was banned in America after
it's first publication. John Lennon's assassin, Mark Chapman, asked the former
beatle to sign a copy of the book earlier in the morning of the day that he
murdered Lennon. Police found the book in his possession upon apprehending the
psychologically disturbed Chapman. However, the book itself contains nothing
that could be attributed with leading Chapman to act as he did - it could have
been any book that he was reading the day he decided to kill John Lennon - and
as a result of the fact that it was 'The Catcher In The Rye', a book describing
nervous breakdown, media speculated widely about the possible connection. This
gave the book even more notoriety. So what is 'The Catcher In The Rye' actually
about ?

Superficially the story of a young man's expulsion from yet another school, 'The
Catcher In The Rye' is in fact a perceptive study of one individual's......

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