Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour

By J.D. Salinger

The last book-length work of fiction by J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime collects two novellas about “one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully realized families in all fiction” (New York Times). These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour Glass–the eldest son of J. D. Salinger’s fictional Glass famil…