thanks to tim, I'm trying to get it through inter-library loan, and thanks to Stephen Foskett and your visit to his page, I know about this odd book...it gives hope that mr. salinger sees more to these stories than he's letting on, though he did publish it in l968 and in l974, after a 2vol bootleg version of his uncollected stories was "published" he made it clear he wanted these stories to stay uncollected...again, thanks for pointing this one out, will On Tue, 5 May 1998, James A Phipps wrote: > Marcy, are you saing TIF is included in a collection of salinger stories > in japan--can you cite your source? curious will > > > > > Will, > > I found that on a web page called "Bananafish - Stories". The book is > "Inverted Forest. Japanese" translated by Karita Motoshi and Atsumi > Akio-It's listed as being 187 pages long, and a legitimate publication. > It also is supposed to include "Slight Rebellion Off Madison", "A Young > Girl in 1941 With No Waist At All", "A Girl I Knew", and "Blue Melody". > > I'd love to get my hands on one but have no idea how to go about ordering > a Japanese book. My next purchase would be a Japanese to English > dictionary, of course. :) > > Marcy > > _____________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com > Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] >