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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
By: J. D. Salinger
Pages: 256
Published: 1963
Genre(s): Short Stories
American
Literary Fiction
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First published in the New Yorker in the 1950s, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction are two novellas narrated by Buddy Glass, a character often said to be a portrait of Salinger himself. In the first, Buddy has taken leave from the army during World War II to attend the wedding of the eldest Glass brother, Seymour, and an atmosphere of portentous suspense sets the...

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