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A haunting portrait of family tragedy from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye

''He was a great many things to a great many people while he lived, and virtually all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat outsized family. Surely he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo, and our one full poet...''

These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour Glass - the eldest son of J. D. Salinger''s fictional Glass family - as recalled by his closest brother, Buddy.

''The Glasses are one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully-realized families in all fiction'' The New York Times

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 04/03/2010
      ISBN13: 9780241950463, 978-0241950463
      ISBN10: 0241950465
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A haunting portrait of family tragedy from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye

      ''He was a great many things to a great many people while he lived, and virtually all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat outsized family. Surely he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo, and our one full poet...''

      These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour Glass - the eldest son of J. D. Salinger''s fictional Glass family - as recalled by his closest brother, Buddy.

      ''The Glasses are one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully-realized families in all fiction'' The New York Times

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