Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout, has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sick...
The original American text of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"; "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut"; "The Laughing Man"; "Down at the Dinghy"; "Just Before the War with the Eskimos"; "For Esme - With Love and Squalor"; "Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes"; "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" and "Teddy". ...