Catcher in the RyeIt'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 encountersshooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of