A haunting and deeply personal portrait of family tragedy from the much-loved author of The
Catcher in the RyeBuddy Glass is the second-eldest son in the eccentric and enchanting Glass
family. He is on leave from the army during World War II attending the wedding of his eldest
brother Seymour. But the wedding is not a happy one: it is overcast by a sense of strange
suspense. Perhaps everyone is aware on some level of what is to come. And in the years after
the tragedy Buddy is haunted by memories of Seymour turning over in his mind everything that
came to pass with his deeply complex and unhappy older brother.With painful tenderness and
great subtlety Salinger unfolds a story of family tragedy from the point of view of a
character - Buddy - who has long been suspected to be a portrait of the author himself.
