Light Years

Literature & Fiction

James-Salter

Contemporary

Unknown

<p>Negra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach. But fine cracks are beginning to spread through the shimmering surface of their life - flaws that will eventually mar the lovely picture beyond repair. Seductive, witty, tender and resonant, "Light Years" is an exquisite novel of lost lives and the elusiveness of happiness.</p>

Light Years (Penguin Modern Classics)

Penguin??Books

Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal: to become an ace, one of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. But as his fellow airmen rack up kill after kill - sometimes under dubious circumstances - Cleve's luck runs bad. Other pilots question his guts. Cleve comes to question himself. And then in one icy instant 40,000 feet above the Yalu River, his luck changes forever. Filled with courage and despair, eerie beauty and corrosive rivalry, James Salter's luminous first novel is a landmark masterpiece in the literature of war.

The Hunters

Genre Fiction

Dusk, and Other Stories

JONATHAN CAPE.

In a small French town in the 1950s, a Yale dropout has an affair with a pretty local shop girl, imagined in every erotic detail by a solitary compatriot. James Salter is the author of "The Hunters", "The Arm of Flesh", "Burning the Days", "Light Years", "Solo Faces" and "'Dusk' and Other Stories".

A Sport and a Pastime (Picador Books)

Picador

Last Night: Stories

Last Night

A Sport and a Pastime

Romance

<p>'The true chronicler of my life, a tall, soft-looking man with watery eyes, came up to me at the gathering and said, as if he had been waiting a long time to tell me, that he knew everything. I had never seen him before.' This is the brilliant memoir of a man who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before emerging as one of America's finest authors in the New York of the 1960's. Burning the Days showcases Salter's uniquely beautiful style with some of the most evocative pages about flying ever written, together with portraits of the actors, directors and authors who later influenced him. It is an unforgettable book about passion, ambition and what it means to live and to write.</p>

Burning The Days

Biographies & Memoirs

Random House]

All That Is

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