J. D Salinger

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction offers readers a nuanced exploration of the Glass family, particularly focusing on Seymour Glass, the enigmatic older brother of the narrator, Buddy. In Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, Buddy recounts the day of Seymour's wedding, which ends in chaos when Seymour disappears. This absence forces Buddy into close quarters with baffled wedding guests, where they begin to uncover glimpses...

A collection of 9 realistic and perceptive short stories. "Nine exceptional stories from one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and frequently affecting, Nine Stories sits alongside Salinger's very best work--a treasure that will passed down for many generations to come." --Amazon.com.

A young and ambitious writer named Jerome David Salinger set his goals very high very early in his career. He almost desperately wished to publish his early stories in The New Yorker magazine, the pinnacle, he felt, of America's literary world. But such was not to be for several long years and the length of one long world war. The New Yorker, whose tastes in literary matters were and remain notoriously prim and fickle, was not quite ready for this...