Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction is a collection of two novellas by American author J. D. Salinger. The first novella, raise high the roof beam, is about Buddy Glass dealing with the fallout of his brother's failure to show up for his own wedding. Seymour: An Introduction is the story of Buddy's brother, Seymour, and Buddy's reflections on his life in the wake of Seymour's suicide years after the failed wedding.
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