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The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

(seventeen-year-old escapes stifling upbringing, on the run in New York at Christmas)

Families (relationships between the generations)

Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Roddy Doyle, The Commitments

John Updike, The Centaur

John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle

François Mauriac, The Nest of Vipers

Growing Up (young adults coming to terms with their own needs and desires - and with the world at large)

William Golding, The Pyramid

Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop  (adolescent orphan goes to live with deranged puppeteer-uncle)

Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career  (young Australian, 1910s, preys on follies of European bourgeoisie)

Günter Grass, Cat and Mouse

Philip Roth, Portnoy"s Complaint

Antonia White, Frost in May

New York (the city as a vast, all-engulfing landscape)

Jerome Weidman, Fourth Street East

Martin Amis, Money

James Baldwin, Another Country

USA (seen - by adults as well as the young - as a kind of theme-park on the borderland between reality and fantasy)

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  (1860s Mississippi: boy"s adolescence on river and in riverside communities)

John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

Patricia Highsmith, The People Who Knock on the Door

John Irving, The Cider House Rules

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Garrison Keiller, Lake Wobegon Days

Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run?  (Sammy claws his way to the top; scum always floats)