New York Adult Entertainment: JD Salinger, author of ‘Catcher in the Rye,’ dies at 91
… He was looked to by readers in the 1950s and 1960s with an immense sense of excitement and anticipation, in the same way when the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky were sold out in a matter of hours,” Lewis Lapham, the former editor of Harper’s magazine, told the Associated Press. “He was a great light on the horizon of anybody interested in literature.”
David Lynn, editor of the Kenyon Review, recalled the jolt of those decades.
“Like most kids, I was blown away by the power, energy and voice of Holden Caulfield,” said Lynn, a professor of English at Kenyon College. “That book was intoxicating. The reader was swept up and borne away by it, and by its anger at hypocrisy and cant — what Holden called ‘the phonies.’ “
“The Catcher in the Rye” is a coming-of-age story told in the raw voice of a 16-year-old who doesn’t want to. Instantly a best seller, it stirred controversy for cussing and content, including Holden’s hiring of a prostitute.
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