Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour
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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...
Published By Little, Brown and Company
Format Hardback
Number Of Pages 256
Publication Date 01/30/1963
ISBN 9780316769570
Dimensions 5.5 inches x 8 inches
"No American writer will ever have a more alert ear, a more attentive eye, or a more ardent heart than Salinger's."—The New Yorker
"Perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation."—The New York Times
"I don't think there's ever been anything like these characters in American literature.”
—Jennifer Lawrence, actress
"There are passages and phrases in Salinger that will stay with me for ever; he is one of those rare writers whose work can actually be called "life-changing”.
—Jarvis Cocker, singer and musician
"He has an enormous cultural importance - you basically can't write about anyone between the ages of five and 35 without accidentally referencing Salinger.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer
"I sat down and read it in a day seven years ago on a trip and it has stayed with me ever since. It showed me how writing can be very simple and straightforward and still effective.”
—Emma Stone, actress
“Salinger's masterworks were the stories he wrote about the Glass family. Their humanity grabs hold of me.Salinger took such care with his characters and wrote with such warmth."
—Emily St. John Mandel, novelist and essayist