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Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenter

Author: SALINGER J
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Pub Date: 04/03/2010
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
ISBN: 9780241950463
Availability: In Stock
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Quick overview Offers a collection of two novellas.
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A haunting and deeply personal portrait of family tragedy from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the Rye Buddy Glass is the second-eldest son in the eccentric and enchanting Glass family. He is on leave from the army during World War II, attending the wedding of his eldest brother, Seymour. But the wedding is not a happy one: it is overcast by a sense of strange suspense. Perhaps everyone is aware, on some level, of what is to come. And in the years after the tragedy, Buddy is haunted by memories of Seymour, turning over in his mind everything that came to pass with his deeply complex and unhappy older brother. With painful tenderness and great subtlety, Salinger unfolds a story of family tragedy from the point of view of one character - Buddy - who has long been suspected to be a portrait of the author himself.

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