books

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the books i got in St. Louis (even though i really have no need to be buying books at all) are: Kangaroo Notebook by Kobo Abe, Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett, Sabbatical by John Barth, Monkey by Wu Ch'êng-ên, Knight's Gambit by William Faulkner, Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerlad, The Meeting at Telgte by Günter Grass, Time, Forward! by Valentine Kataev, Women and Men by Joseph McElroy, The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers, Novels by Wilhelm Raabe, The Plot against America by Philip Roth, The Golovlyov Family by Shchedrin, The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola, and Beowulf (the newerish supposedly great translation by Seamus Heaney)...