Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour

An Introduction

1955 • 224 pages

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I forgot how much I adore J.D. Salinger and the ways in which he crafts his characters in a way that make them so alive. Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters was everything I wanted going into this (funny, ridiculous, and just a dash of that unique Salinger style). Seymour, An Introduction on the other hand was.... it was rambling with brief moments of profound and striking moments of clarity which I think is all I can hope for on a piece so heavily focused on the Glass family's most elusive member.

April 14, 2023