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"Literature's Answer to Bob Dylan" - Ruby Wax
The American-born comedian, Ruby Wax, says Catcher in the Rye was a very important book for her 1960s generation - "He held a flag to what we were feeling - that it was correct, and everyone else was crazy".
(Photo: Ruby Wax)
(Credit: BBC)
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