The Catcher in the Rye SS_Gift_Guide NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the renowned astronomer and author of Cosmos comes a “powerful [and] stirring defense of informed rationality” (The Washington Post Book World) in a world where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace

In the tradition of Sheffield’s Dreaming the Beatles

of what was possible and what was not

her resolve to give up the comforts of her past life is sorely tested

and knowledge systems

The Catcher in the Rye SS_Gift_Guide NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •Anyone who has read J. D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For EsmeWith Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description,