Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour - An Introduction
Seymour - an Introduction
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- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
23 May 2019
Summary
A haunting and deeply personal portrait of family tragedy from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the Rye.
In May of 1942, Buddy Glass, second son of the eccentric Glass family, comes home on leave from military service. He is back in New York City to attend the wedding of his eldest brother, Seymour. But the celebration is overcast by a sense of suspended weight, a strange and muted dread. Perhaps everyone is aware, on some level, of what is to come. And in the years after the t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241950463 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241950465 |
| Author: | J.D. Salinger |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 23 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 119g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 10mm |
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About The Author
J.D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger was born in 1919 and died in January 2010. He grew up in New York City and wrote short stories from an early age, but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication in the New Yorker of ‘A Perfect Day for Bananafish’. The Catcher in the Rye was his first and only novel, published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated, taught and reprinted texts, and has sold over 65 million copies worldwide. He went on to write three further, critically acclaimed, best-selling works of fiction- Franny and Zooey, For Esme - With Love And Squalor and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour - An Introduction. Salinger continued to write throughout his life and left behind a large body of unpublished work.
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