Product Information
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..."Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316769517
ISBN-139780316769518
eBay Product ID (ePID)1514563
Product Key Features
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Literary, Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length6.7in
Item Height0.7in
Item Width4.2in
Item Weight3.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Book TitleRaise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour : an Introduction
Lccn2019-296718
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Intended AudienceTrade
Lc Classification NumberPs3537.A426r3 2018
Publication Year1991
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
FormatMass Market
Dewey Edition19
Number of Pages176 Pages