The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the RyeOne of the greatest novels of the twentieth century reissued in a stunning hardback design to celebrate the Salinger centenary. It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by

along the way weaving unforgettable stories of misfits

and sheer force of imagination

supported by iconography that is both rich and mostly unpublished

But it is also invigorating

and a skewered Salvador Dalí butterfly on Jackie Gleason’s Lonesome Echo

New interview with Lemmons

while a modest painter is out of his depth in the hypocrisy of the art world

“The music was a seamless melding of rock

' On his deathbed

Nearing 50 years on from its release Station To Station is now seen as a musical bridge between the 'plastic soul' of 1975's Young Americans and the experimental beginning of Bowie's Berlin era that was 1977's Low

the book also features a compelling introduction by Anthony DeCurtis

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