Ten For Today: Unreliable Narrator

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J.D. Salinger’s only published novel The Catcher in the Rye was unleashed on the world on this day in 1951. In the ensuing 70+ years, it’s been popular, beloved, reviled, debated, canonical, lauded and banned. It gave us an iconic anti-hero in Holden Caulfield, who is the ultimate unreliable narrator, given to hyperbole and exaggeration. Thinking about …