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...Holden Caulfield Andy Hardy
...special problems of his own. Change Lopez, the meanest pachuquito in town, threatens to castrate him; an assignation becomes an embarrassing flop; and he can't decide whether he loves the Episcopal rector's daughter or the gardener's. Eventually, like Huck Finn, Penrod and Holden Caulfield, all of whom he resembles, Josh painfully squirms through the gap in the hedge that separates adolescence from manhood...
With little sentimentality and few false notes, Conroy, now 31 and a freelance writer, describes a kind of Huck Finn-Holden Caulfield boyhood and coming of age in Florida, Connecticut and Manhattan, in the midst of a rather eccentric family. It is the most obvious of themes, but Conroy brings it off remarkably well, with an almost archaic narrative skill...
CLOWN ON FIRE, by Aaron Judah. The author's sure comedic touch relies on metamorphosing Holden Caulfield into a Polish Jewish boy named Joe Hosea and setting him amuck in India...
...reader will quickly recognize him as a literary cousin of Holden Caulfield...