Will wrote: > The title in English is > > Selected Stories of J.D. Salinger and the stories included are "Slight > Rebellion Off Madison," "A Young Girl in l941 With No Waist At All," > "A Girl I Knew," "Blue Melody," and "The Inverted Forest." I haven't > found a Japanese friend able to look at it and tell me about the publisher > but I think this an approved Salinger book...isn't it odd that he would > let Japanese readers have these stories in a book? will Yes, and an odd mix too - not necessarily the pick of the early crop - or do you believe that Salinger sees these as the best of the early work? It's hard to say, he might have just picked them at random. Just like Jesus picked the disciples (: Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 @ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest