He describes his parents as nice, but "touchy as hell." Instead, Holden vows to tell about what happened to him around last Christmas, before he had to take it easy. The Catcher in the Rye begins with the statement by the narrator, Holden Caulfield, that he will not tell about his "lousy" childhood and "all that David Copperfield kind of crap" because such details bore him. The book has been tremendously successful as well as one of the most censored and challenged novels of the twentieth century. It was also published for numerous book clubs as well as by cheaper re-print publishing houses. Little, Brown and Company published the book Jat a price of $3.00. In the same year, Harcourt Brace & Company accepted the manuscript but had notes and requested a re-write Salinger withdrew the book. In 1950, The New Yorker rejected a 90-page novella version of The Catcher in the Rye. While serving in World War II, Salinger wrote six chapters with the character and got feedback on his writing from Ernest Hemingway. Salinger (birth name Jerome David Salinger) wrote numerous short stories containing similar themes and characters (including Holden Caulfield) in the early 1940s. NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY ELECTRONIC OR MECHANICAL MEANS INCLUDING INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER, EXCEPT BY A REVIEWER WHO MAY QUOTE BRIEF PASSAGES IN REVIEW”