A fascinating and detailed look into the Manhattan environment that Holden Caulfield inhabits in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. The Catcher's Companion explains, clarifies, elaborates on and defines the people, places and events that were familiar to Holden Caulfield and readers of The Catcher in the Rye when it was first published nearly seventy years ago but have grown obscure with the passage of time. If you want the full experience of reading the novel and understanding Holden's experiences over one long, bleak, winter weekend as J.D. Salinger intended this book serves as your guide and translator.