Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction

<p><b>A haunting portrait of family tragedy from the acclaimed author of <i>The Catcher in the Rye</i></b><br><br><i>'He was a great many things to a great many people while he lived, and virtually all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat outsized family. Surely he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo, and our one full poet...'</i><br><br>These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour Glass - the eldest son of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family - as recalled by his closest brother, Buddy.<br><br>'The Glasses are one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully-realized families in all fiction' <i>The New York Times</i></p> <p><b>A haunting portrait of family tragedy from the acclaimed author of <i>The Catcher in the Rye</i></b><br><br><i>'He was a great many things to a great many people while he lived, and virtually all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat outsized family. Surely he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo, and our one full poet...'</i><br><br>These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour Glass - the eldest son of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family - as recalled by his closest brother, Buddy.<br><br>'The Glasses are one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully-realized families in all fiction' <i>The New York Times</i></p>