Insight on the News, April 2nd, 2001
J.D. Salinger's other fiction is largely unread, but his great novel starring Holden Caulfield has managed to fascinate one generation of adolescents after another for a half-century.
J.D. Salinger, our most famous literary recluse, has not encouraged his publisher, or anybody else for that matter, to make a big fuss about the fact that The Catcher in the Rye is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Even so, the renowned book probably has posted higher sales figures than any other serious American novel; this is as true now, at a time when it clips along at a brisk 250,000 copies a year, as it ...
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