“Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((”

— Jerome David Salinger, book Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

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American writer 1919–2010

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