Brendan, you may be interested in an essay from Studies in Short Fiction by Eberhard Alsen called "RHTRBC and the Amateur Reader." Alsen works from the claim that RHTRBC is "the most story-like" of salinger's later, longer fiction as well. will On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Brendan McKennedy wrote: > > > > >Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, which I love extraordinarily. > Have I > >missed posts dealing with it? What- in the general sense- do you all > think > >of it? > > > I think it is the best of the Glass stories--the most story-like, with > the least of Buddy's instructions on Living Correctly, as well as the > most entertaining of them--with the exception of "Uncly Wiggly", which > you may or may not consider a Glass story. > > Brendan > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >