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

Name: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
ISBN: 0316769517

The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS in 1955, SEYMOUR ? An Introduction in 1959. Whatever their differences in mood or effect, they are both very much concerned wi

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“Extremes, though, are always risky and ordinarily downright baneful, and the dangers of prolonged contact with any poetry that seems to exceed what we most familiarly know of the first-class are formidable.”

— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com

“One night some twenty years ago, during a siege of mumps in our enormous family, my youngest sister, Franny, was moved, crib and all, into the ostensibly germ-free room I shared with my eldest brother, Seymour.”

— J.D. Salinger, amazon.com

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