Raise high the roof beam, carpenters and Seymour--an introduction
Main Author: | Salinger, J. D. 1919-2010. |
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Other Authors: | Salinger, J. D. 1919-2010- |
Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Boston :
Little, Brown,
1987.
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Item Description: |
The first of these two stories was originally published in the New Yorker in 1955. The second was originally published in 1959 in the same magazine. |
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Physical Description: |
248 p. ; 21 cm. |
ISBN: |
0316769576 |
Author Notes: |
In December 1945, his short story I'm Crazy was published in Collier's. In 1947, his short story A Perfect Day for Bananafish was published in The New Yorker. Throughout his lifetime, he wrote more than 30 short stories and a handful of novellas, which were published in magazines and later collected in works such as Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. The Catcher in the Rye, published in 1951, was his only novel. His last published story, Hapworth 16, 1924, appeared in 1965. He spent the remainder of his years in seclusion and silence in a home in Cornish, New Hampshire. He died of natural causes on January 27, 2010 at the age of 91. Salinger always wanted to write the great American novel; when he succeeded in this with Catcher in the Rye, he was unprepared for the onslaught on privacy issues that this popularity brought on. He never wanted to be in the spotlight and retreated from all contacts he had in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography) |