This book has been steeped in controversy since it was banned in

America after it's first publication. John Lennon's assassin, Mark Chapman,

asked the former beatle to sign a copy of the book earlier in the morning

of the day that he murdered Lennon. Police found the book in his possession

upon apprehending the psychologically disturbed Chapman. However, the book

itself contains nothing that could be attributed with leading Chapman to

act as he did - it could have been any book that he was reading the day he

decided to kill John Lennon - and as a result of the fact that it was 'The

Catcher In The Rye', a book describing nervous breakdown, media speculated

widely about the possible connection. This gave the book even more

notoriety. So what is 'The Catcher In The Rye' actually about ?

Superficially the story of a young man's expulsion from yet another school,

'The Catcher In The Rye' is in fact a perceptive study of one individual's......

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Title: Catcher In The Rye
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