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

1 About this book

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 1963. It was the first time the novellas had appeared in book form. The book was the third best-selling novel in the United States in 1963, according to Publishers Weekly.

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• Ecology
• Manners and customs in fiction
• Stream of consciousness
• Manners and customs
• Deaf
• Family life
• Brothers
• Weddings