Re: J.D's handy work

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:22:46 +1000

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
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