 | F. K. Stanzel - 1986 - 332 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...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;... | |
 | William A. Dyrness - 1989 - 184 pages
...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... | |
 | Warner Berthoff - 2010 - 201 pages
..."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... | |
 | Francis L. Gross, Toni Perior Gross - 1993 - 320 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...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... | |
 | J. R. LeMaster, James Darrell Wilson, Christie Graves Hamric - 1993 - 952 pages
...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... | |
 | James R. Hurford - 1994 - 292 pages
...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... | |
 | James O. Freedman - 2001 - 198 pages
...Rye by JD Salinger, with its arresting opening lines, heralding a fresh style in American writing: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing...me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap." I wish I had the literary skill to convey fully the power that The Catcher in the Rye had for a reader... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...instalment missing. QUENTIN CRISP, (b. 1908) British author. The Naked Civil Servant, ch. 29 (1968). 2 If you really want to hear about it, the first thing...kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it. JD (JEROME DAVID) SALINGER, (b. 1919) US author. Catcher in the Rye, ch. 1 (1951). Opening words. Autumn... | |
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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... 
