Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters And Seymour: An Introduction
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Tears along folds of dust jacket spine. Water damage to dust jacket. Top quarter of first page cut.
A landmark work of American literary fiction, this volume unites two of J.D. Salinger's most celebrated novellas, both centered on the brilliant and enigmatic Glass family. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters chronicles the wedding day chaos that ensues when Buddy Glass, unable to reach his brother Seymour, finds himself stranded with the bride's furious relatives — a darkly comic and deeply human portrait of miscommunication and longing. Seymour: An Introduction then presents Buddy's sprawling, digressive, and deeply personal attempt to capture the essence of his late brother Seymour, a poet and spiritual seeker whose absence haunts every page. Salinger's prose is intimate and unconventional, blending wit, philosophical meditation, and raw emotional honesty in a style that feels simultaneously confessional and carefully constructed. Together, the two pieces stand as a profound meditation on genius, grief, and the impossibility of truly knowing another person.
Author: J.D. Salinger
Format: Hardback
Published: 1963, Heinemann
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Tears along folds of dust jacket spine. Water damage to dust jacket. Top quarter of first page cut.
A landmark work of American literary fiction, this volume unites two of J.D. Salinger's most celebrated novellas, both centered on the brilliant and enigmatic Glass family. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters chronicles the wedding day chaos that ensues when Buddy Glass, unable to reach his brother Seymour, finds himself stranded with the bride's furious relatives — a darkly comic and deeply human portrait of miscommunication and longing. Seymour: An Introduction then presents Buddy's sprawling, digressive, and deeply personal attempt to capture the essence of his late brother Seymour, a poet and spiritual seeker whose absence haunts every page. Salinger's prose is intimate and unconventional, blending wit, philosophical meditation, and raw emotional honesty in a style that feels simultaneously confessional and carefully constructed. Together, the two pieces stand as a profound meditation on genius, grief, and the impossibility of truly knowing another person.