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  • A Sport and a Pastime by Salter, James
    James Salter

    A Sport and a Pastime

    As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know, is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, James...
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  • Burning the Days: Recollection by Salter, James
    James Salter

    Burning the Days: Recollection

    Whether he is describing the icy purity of the Korean sky in the instant before it is shattered by a huge formation of MIGs, the light of Paris at dawn, or the glinting smile of a beautiful woman in a Roman cafe, Salter is...
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  • Cassada by Salter, James
    James Salter

    Cassada

    In Cassada, Salter captures the strange comradeship of loneliness, trust, and alienation among military men ready to sacrifice all in the name of duty and pride. The lives of officers in an Air Force squadron in occupied Europe encompass the contradictions of military experience...
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  • Don't Save Anything: Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles by Salter, James
    James Salter

    Don't Save Anything: Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles

    In Don't Save Anything . . . Kay Eldredge Salter assembles her late husband's bread-and-butter journalism--yet how delicious good bread and butter can be! . . . As always, Salter emphasizes simple, vivifying details. --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post One of the greatest writers...
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  • Dusk and Other Stories by Salter, James
    James Salter

    Dusk and Other Stories

    First published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital--each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literary grace. Two New York attorneys newly flush...
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  • Gods of Tin: The Flying Years by Salter, James
    James Salter

    Gods of Tin: The Flying Years

    A singular life often circles around a singular moment, an occasion when one's life in the world is defined forever and the emotional vocabulary set. For the extraordinary writer James Salter, this moment was contained in the fighter planes over Korea where, during his...
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  • Light Years by Salter, James
    James Salter

    Light Years

    This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends, and...
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  • Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps by Salter, James
    James Salter

    Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps

    "[A] well-edited collection . . . More than friends and less than lovers, Salter and Phelps were literary soul mates." --Publishers Weekly It was James Salter's third novel, A Sport and a Pastime--together with his film Three and a script he had written for...
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  • Solo Faces by Salter, James
    James Salter

    Solo Faces

    Solo Faces exposes the obsession that draws climbers away from civilization to test themselves against the most intimidating and inaccessible mountains in the world. James Salter's novel captures the adventure of Gary, a roofer of churches, who feels restrained by conventions and flat ground....
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  • The Art of Fiction by Salter, James
    James Salter

    The Art of Fiction

    James Salter's exalted place in American letters is based largely on the intense admiration of other writers, but his work resonates far beyond the realm of fellow craftsmen, addressing themes--youth, war, erotic love, marriage, life abroad, friendship--that speak to us all.Following the publication of...
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  • The Hunters by Salter, James
    James Salter

    The Hunters

    With his stirring, rapturous first novel--originally published in 1956 --James Salter established himself as the most electrifying prose stylist since Hemingway. Four decades later, it is clear that he also fashioned the most enduring fiction ever about aerial warfare. Captain Cleve Connell arrives in...
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  • The Hunters by Salter, James
    James Salter

    The Hunters

    Captain Cleve Connell has already made a name for himself among pilots when he arrives in Korea during the war there to fly the newly operational F-86 fighters against the Soviet MIGs. His goal, like that of every fighter pilot, is to chalk up...
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  • There and Then: The Travel Writing of James Salter by Salter, James
    James Salter

    There and Then: The Travel Writing of James Salter

    This collection offers two dozen essays and sketches about one of the passions of Salter's life, travel, a subject beloved by writers across the centuries. Over twenty years of skiing, hiking, climbing -- from Colorado to Japan to the Tyrol, from Austria and Switzerland...
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