The Catcher in the Rye. A book that captures teenage alienation in a way no other has before starts with a seventeen-year-old boy, Holden Caulfield, in an undisclosed ‘crumby place’ not too far from Hollywood (Los Angeles, California) where his brother, one who visits him practically every week, lives. There are those who assume he’s in a psychiatric hospital after suffering a nervous breakdown. Others swear he’s in a tuberculosis sanatorium because he was so sick when he neared the end of hi...