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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316766941
ISBN-139780316766944
eBay Product ID (ePID)109897
Product Key Features
Book TitleRaise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour : an Introduction
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year2001
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorJ.D. Salinger
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight7.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2019-296718
Reviews"No American writer will ever have a more alert ear, a more attentive eye, or a more ardent heart than Salinger's."-- Adam Gopnik , New Yorker
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisThe 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..."