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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters: Seymour, an Introduction

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Author: J.d. Salinger
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 8084

Media: Hardcover
Edition: Rev Ed
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.5

ISBN: 0140237518
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140237511
ASIN: 0140237518

Publication Date: August 4, 1994
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Looking for more? June 24, 2005
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

If you loved 'the catcher in the rye', you will probably love 'raise high the roof beams carpenters', a similar style of story, in my opinion equally wonderful and unforgettable -- this recommendation from someone whose favorite short story is 'the laughing man'.

5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant April 26, 2001
5 out of 9 found this review helpful

There is no need to know about JD Salinger or understand who Buddy and Seymour are. The sheer simplicity of the desire to wave to the old man's hat, to the complexity of Buddy's love for Seymour shown in his inability to find anyone to look for horses in his stead, is pure brilliance. Read this book.

4 out of 5 stars

More excellence from Salinger's short stories May 13, 2000
14 out of 18 found this review helpful

Both these stories are interlinked with that of "For Esme with love and Squalor" and "Franny and Zooey" giving a greatly detailed view of the family's lives. When these stories are read with the other two books we can amazingly link the lives together especially thanks to this book. I would recommend reading this book after reading the other two first, thus you can interlink all the lives together and discover why future events may have happend. In conclusion this book is worth the money you pay for it, although I would not buy this before you get to know the authors past first. Christian Barron

5 out of 5 stars

Numb March 20, 2000
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is a short story about Salinger's brother Seymour (also written about in 'Lovely day for Bananafish' and 'Seymour: An Introduction')and it so moved me as to now be considered one of my all time favourite reads. Seymour's life story, although tragic, is what I feel to be the most beautiful and complete summary of what it means to be human that I've ever come across. Salinger writes this book with such love, the work comes across as poetic more than novelistic.