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From: John Bishop <jbishop at ch.hp.com>
Well, when I started to read Pandora_by_Holly_Hollander
and found myself reading a monologue by an observant
but a bit alienated teenager, Catcher instantly sprang
to mind.
Well, yes, but you could cite any number of other books. Contemporary first-person YA novels (and even those for younger kids, like -Harriet the Spy-) all sound like that. I read a neat, not really for young people, one last year called -The Saskiad- that had a somewhat more sophisticated version of the same tone. (Much better than Holly Hollander, IMO.)
-alga-