J.D. Salinger's fiction is closely associated with adolescent alienation, private grief and characters who resist the social worlds around them. The Catcher in the Rye follows sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield through several days in New York after he leaves his boarding school, using his conversational first-person voice to move between encounters, memories and complaints about people he considers false. Salinger's other best-known work centres on the Glass family: Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction examine siblings shaped by unusual intelligence, spiritual questions and the death of their brother Seymour. The stories are less plot-driven than voice- and character-led, with dialogue and interior thought doing most of the work. Salinger is most relevant to American classics, coming-of-age fiction and mid-century short stories, particularly for readers interested in distinctive narrators and family-centred literary fiction. Read more Less
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