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

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…”

Author: J. D. Salinger
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 05/01/1991
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.2lbs
Size: 6.77h x 4.20w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780316769518
Language: English