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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
Contributor(s): Salinger, J. D. (Author)

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ISBN: 0316766941     ISBN-13: 9780316766944
Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2001
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Annotation: "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" and "Seymour" are now reissued in a trade paper edition.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 63008969
Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.25" W x 7.94" L (0.50 lbs) 256 pages
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 66226
Reading Level: 7.5   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 9.0
 
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Publisher Description:
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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