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

by J.d. Salinger
As told by: J.d Salinger

Little, Brown And Company | May 1, 1991 | Mass Market Paperbound

The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS in 1955, SEYMOUR ? An Introduction in 1959. Whatever their differences in mood or effect, they are both very much concerned with Seymour Glass, who is the main character in my still-uncompleted series about the Glass family. It struck me that they had better be collected together, if not deliberately paired off, in something of a hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly or undesirably close contact with new material in the series. There is only my word for it, granted, but I have several new Glass stories coming along ? waxing, dilating ? each in its own way, but I suspect the less said about them, in mixed company, the better. Oddly, the joys and satisfactions of working on the Glass family peculiarly increase and deepen for me with the years. I can''t say why, though. Not, at least, outside the casino proper of my fiction.
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Rating: 5/5

Absolutley Amazing

Zahra Abc

3 years ago

This book (Seymour, an Introduction) was the best thing Ive ever read. Not only does Salinger let loose, and write completely his hearts desire, but he manages to capture the audience without even making a solid plot. The concept of the protagonist, Buddy's, ventures is to describe his brother Seymour. But Buddy doesnt just describe him. He makes him alive in the pages, in a way so exquisite that only a true reader can even grasp to understand the complexity of the character. Many even think this novel is Salinger's part auto-biography, simply because it is so true to its word, rambling (yet organized), pure and true. Its a book so full of details that you can read it again and again for your whole life, and relate to new parts each time. I have never read anything like this novel, and most likely never will again.

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