Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; And, Seymour: An Introduction
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; And, Seymour: An Introduction
Salinger, J. D.
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Little, Brown & Co.
Annotation: Two stories in which the narrator, Harry Glass, introduces his older brother and describes the events of Seymour's wedding day.
Genre: [Realistic fiction] [Short stories]
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #4698571
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.
Copyright Date: 1959
Edition Date: 1991 Release Date: 05/01/91
Pages: 170 pages
ISBN: 0-316-76951-7
ISBN 13: 978-0-316-76951-8
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 83152356
Dimensions: 18 cm.
Subject Heading:
Brothers. Fiction.
Wedding. Fiction.
Families. Fiction.
Language: English
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Word Count: 52,690
Reading Level: 7.5
Interest Level: 9+
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 7.5 / points: 9.0 / quiz: 66226 / grade: Upper Grades

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..."

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