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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316766944)
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xThe 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
ISBN-10: 0316766941
ISBN-13: 9780316766944
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Language: English
Published: 01/30/2001
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.25w x 0.71d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.5
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 66226 / Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
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
ISBN-10: 0316766941
ISBN-13: 9780316766944
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Language: English
Published: 01/30/2001
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.25w x 0.71d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.5
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 66226 / Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
By J. D. Salinger
xJ. D. Salinger was born in New York City on January 1, 1919, and died in Cornish, New Hampshire, on January 27, 2010. His stories appeared in many magazines, most notably The New Yorker. Between 1951 and 1963 he produced four book-length works of fiction: The Catcher in the Rye; Nine Stories; Franny and Zooey; and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour--An Introduction. The books have been embraced and celebrated throughout the world and have been credited with instilling in many a lifelong love of reading.
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