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Holden Caulfield Tells It Like It Is
Hear Holden Caulfield, JD Salinger's angst-ridden teenage anti-hero, set the scene for The Catcher In the Rye, in the first few paragraphs of the book. JD Salinger died in 2010, and wrote the novel in 1951.
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