Very personal reading of this, definitely flawed as it is from a 1950’s American boy perspective but that also sets the tone for the novel’s entirety. Style is fragmentary, sometimes awkward and confusing but that in my opinion added to the adolescent narration. A triumph in comparison to its heterosexual companion, the catcher in the rye. Perhaps this book gave me what that book was supposed to. Not for everyone I’m sure but I really loved it!