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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour

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by J. D. Salinger

Recommended by Jennifer Lawrence

Recommended by Jennifer Lawrence

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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.

The last booklength 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 Glassthe eldest son of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family...

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I don't think there's ever been anything like these characters in American literature.

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