Holden Caulfield, our hero

What is a rebellious teenager? Redundant. This is the story of Holden Caulfield, a teenager who passes through these difficult years in which adults say that they are the most beautiful of your life. These adults are liars or amnesia.
Holden is on the verge switch permanently in the adult world, and he looks at the world with horror and contempt, revulsion at the idea of ​​joining all the "phonies" (false bottoms, false tokens) in this world of starched conventions, hypocritical politeness and pseudo-normality.
Holden has just been fired from his high school, he moved to New York to see his little sister Phoebe, hang out in bars some vaguely thinking about his future and thinking about his brother who prostitute in Hollywood (he wrote scripts, c ' You say!).
Is that all? Yes, that's it. And that's great. Before Salinger, had never heard a teenager's voice as just, as ruthless, too disillusioned, in a style "spoken" both fascinating and familiar, and that no translation can make the singularity.
Holden's voice is unique, but what he feels is universal, and the continued success of this novel (we want to write "narrative") is proved: the USA alone, it sells each year to 250 000.
If you are young, you take this book you will recognize. If you are older, you also take on the book to check what the rate of rebellion that remains in your adult soul.