The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

“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,” so begins JD Salinger’s modern take on the coming-of-age story, The Catcher in the Rye. The disillusionment felt by many adolescents in 1950s America is captured brilliantly by the author’s unconventional hero Holden Caulfield, as he recounts his adventures in New York City over the course of two days after running away from home.