Books
February, 1963
It will gladden the Salinger cult to see Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (Little, Brown, S4) reprinted in book form. Salinger has a fine eye for the nuances of a certain rather narrow mode of experience; he frequently turns shrewd and funny phrases, especially in mild derision; and his greatest gift is the satire so toughly yet subtly used in parts of Raise High -- Buddy Glass' recollection of his brother Seymour's failure to show up at his own wedding. But when...
