I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.
An edition of The Catcher in the Rye
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The Catcher in the Rye
Original American edition
by J. D. Salinger
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First published in serial form in the USA 1945-6
First published in book form in the USA 1951
First British edition published by Hamish Hamilton 1951
Published in Penguin Books 1958
This original American edition first published in Great Britain in Penguin Books and simultaneously by Hamish Hamilton 1994
Set in 10/12.5 Monophoto Sabon
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Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.
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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
added by Lisa.
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