...and of the rest of the (fictional) characters in the novel. Holden begins his narrative as follows: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing...kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two haemorrhages...

...voice snaps with a contempt for propriety that has beguiled millions of young readers for decades: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing...like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages...

...author Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two. Ellery Sedgwick (1872-1960) American editor If you really want to hear about it, the first thing...kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it. JD Salinger (b. 1919) American author opening words o/Catchcr in the Rye See Ellis on ARTISTS; BIOGRAPHY;...

...begins the story by noting that perhaps the reader would like to know something about his parents, "and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it." All we know is that he has had some kind of problem in his school and wants to escape to New York to...

..."In my younger and more vulnerable years," "You don't know about me without you have read . . . ," "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing...I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like," "I am an invisible man," "I am living at the Villa Borghese," "It's my lunch hour, so I go / For a...

...chimney to rob roy but this is only a guess. (G. Willians and R. Searle, Down with Skool, p. 45) Ex: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing...like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me and in the second place, my parents would have two hemmorrhages...

...exist." 68 * II * II * II * II * II * II * II * II * II * II * II * II * Part Two HER BACKGROUND 6 FAMILY If you really want to hear about it, the first thing...like going into it, if you want to know the truth. —JD Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye WE WILL HAVE TO COVER some old ground here, treated in the chapter...

...them decide what it is or it isn't, PHILIP ROTH (b. 1933), US novelisl. Deception. "Philip" (1990). 28 ~, JD SALINGER (b. 1919), US aulhor. The narrator (Holden Caulfield), in Catcher /nine RytHI951). 29 Members...

...further than the opening lines of Salinger's novel to hear the echoes and to feel the connections: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bom, and what my lousy childhood was like" (Salinger 1), Granted, Huck is a battered child while Holden...

...which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria. 3 If you really want to hear about it, the first thing...occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfteld kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. Perfect...