Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction is a single volume featuring two novellas by J. D. Salinger, which were previously published in The New Yorker: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955) and Seymour: An Introduction (1959). Little, Brown republished them in this anthology in the year 1963. It was the first time the novellas had appeared in book form. Anthologized together, they were the third bestselling novel i...
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction is a single volume featuring two novellas by J. D. Salinger, which were previously published in The New Yorker: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955) and Seymour: An Introduction (1959). Little, Brown republished them in this anthology in the year 1963. It was the first time the novellas had appeared in book form. Anthologized together, they were the third bestselling novel in the United States in 1963 according to Publishers Weekly.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters was originally published in the November 19, 1955 issue of The New Yorker.
Like many of the other Glass family stories, Raise High is narrated by Buddy Glass, the second of the Glass brothers. It describes Buddy's visit on Army leave (during World War II, in 1942) to attend the wedding of his brother Seymour to Muriel and tells of the events that follow the wedding's non-occurrence. The events that occur in this story set the stage for Seymour's...
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