The Catcher In The Rye (Review)

Author: J.D Salinger
Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: Penguin (London)
Released: 1951
Pages: 192 p. (UK paperback edition)

Un clasico de Salinger que cayo en mis manos. Es la historia de Holden, un chico de familia adinerada que cuando es expulsado - por millonesima vez - de su colegio, viaja a New York. Me hizo acordar mucho a una pelicula, creo que se llama "Igby goes down" con Kieran Culkin, Bill Pullman, Susan Sarandon y Ryan Phillippe, entre otros.
Resulta que Holden es un desastre, no le gusta nada, salvo pasar tiempo con su hermanita y decide escaparse de la escuela (aunque en realidad lo hecharon) unos dias antes de navidad.
En el libro relata sus dias fuera de la escuela y su vida en New York. Basicamente es la historia de una familia disfuncional como las hay millones. De todas formas esta bueno, el titulo en español es "El guardian entre el centeno".

Plot:
"The novel covers a few important days in the life of the protagonist Holden Caulfield, a tall, lanky, highly-critical and depressed sixteen-year-old who decides one night to run away from Pencey Prep boarding school, just before Christmas vacation. Holden has actually been expelled from Pencey Prep; he is required to leave the school for good once vacation begins, but instead he secretly leaves a few days before his scheduled departure date, late one night after having a particularly depressing day with the people in his orbit. Rather than return to his family home in New York City, he decides to spend a few days in the city on his own. Because he is overly critical, and the fact that he points out faults of people only to exhibit them later, Holden is widely considered to be an unreliable narrator, and the details and events of his story are apt to be distorted by his point of view. Nonetheless, it is his story to tell." - Wikipedia

Le doy 3 estrellitas de 5 (***)