I'm coming to it rather late -- it was published in 1951and has been famous ever since. (Do younger people know it now?)
Since first publication, it's been famous for a variety of reasons.
- as an astonishing first novel
- as the work of an obscure author who retreated to the country and wrote little else
- as an expose of modern (post-WWII) kids
- as a dirty book unsuitable for the teenagers it porported to depict, and thus a book time and again banned by school boards, mainly in North America.
- as a source of slang and swear words
But now I've read it, and you know what? It's very good.
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