RE: Raise High the Roof
PODESTA,Lesley (Lesley.PODESTA@deetya.gov.au)
Mon, 06 Apr 1998 09:28:36 +1000
Will, thanks. How does one get hold of Alsen? Amazon says "not
available". Thanks, Lesley
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> From: WILL HOCHMAN[SMTP:hochman@uscolo.edu]
> Sent: Monday, 6 April 1998 1:46
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: Re: Raise High the Roof
>
> 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
> >
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