Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

The last book-length work of fiction by J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime collects two novellas...
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Author: J. D. Salinger
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by Salinger, J. D.

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

$120.52

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

$120.52
Author: J. D. Salinger
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The last book-length work of fiction by J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime collects two novellas about one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully realized families in all fiction (New York Times).

These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour Glass--the eldest son of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family--as recalled by his closest brother, Buddy.

He was a great many things to a great many people while he lived, and virtually all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat outsized family. Surely he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo, and our one full poet...


Author: J. D. Salinger
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 05/01/1991
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 6.77h x 4.20w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780316769518

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.5
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 66226 / Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

About the Author
J. D. Salinger was born in New York City on January 1, 1919, and died in Cornish, New Hampshire, on January 27, 2010. His stories appeared in many magazines, most notably The New Yorker. Between 1951 and 1963 he produced four book-length works of fiction: The Catcher in the Rye; Nine Stories; Franny and Zooey; and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour--An Introduction. The books have been embraced and celebrated throughout the world and have been credited with instilling in many a lifelong love of reading.

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