cupolas
raise high the roof beam carpenters and seymour an introduction
the author writes the two long pieces in this book originally came out in the new yorker raise high the roof beam carpenters in 1955 seymour an introduction in 1959 . whatever their differences in mood or effect they are both very much concerned with seymour glass who is the main character in my still uncompleted series about the glass family . it struck me that they had better be collected together if not deliberately paired off in something of a hurry if i mean them to avoid unduly or undesirably close contact with new material in the series . there is only my word for it granted but i have several new glass stories coming along waxing dilating each in its own way but i suspect the less said about them in mixed company the better . oddly the joys and satisfactions of working on the glass family peculiarly increase and deepen for me with the years . i cant say why though . not at least outside the casino proper of my fiction .
buddy glass introduces his older brother and describes the events of seymours wedding day .