Background
Salter, James was born on June 10, 1925 in Passaic, New Jersey, United States.
(The author of the PEN/Faulkner and PEN/Malamud Award-winn...)
The author of the PEN/Faulkner and PEN/Malamud Award-winning story collections Dusk and Other Stories and Last Night, as well as a string of superb novels, James Salter gave us this remarkable memoir of a man who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age fighting in the skies over Korea. The book is about passion, ambition, and what it means to live and to write, and showcases Salter's uniquely compressed style with some of the most evocative pages about flying ever written. "An extraordinarily gifted composer of prose.... It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it; Saint-Exupéry was one; Salter is another."-NYTBR "A classic memoir, alive with amazing people, fabulous events, and extraordinary stories of war and love and the great wide world. Through the sheer and sensual force of his writing (and nobody writes more beautifully), James Salter hasn't only recollected the past, he's reclaimed it."-Michael Herr
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( This collection offers two dozen essays and sketches ab...)
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 to Germany and France, Salter is an engaging companion sharing his great enthusiasm and adventures. James Salter’s novels and volumes of memoir have been widely celebrated and he is now recognized as one of America’s most important writers. Susan Sontag once remarked, Salter is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as yet unpublished books I wait for impatiently.”
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( The lives of officers in an Air Force squadron in occup...)
The lives of officers in an Air Force squadron in occupied Europe encompass the contradictions of military experience and the men's response to a young newcomer, bright and ambitious, whose fate is to be an emblem of their own. 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. After futile attempts at ordinary revision, Salter elected to begin with a blank page, to compose an entirely new novel based upon the characters and events of his second long unavailable novel, The Arm of Flesh. The result, Cassada, is a masterpiece.
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( A singular life often circles around a singular moment,...)
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 young manhood, he flew more than one hundred missions. James Salter is considered one of America's greatest prose stylists. The Arm of Flesh (later revised and retitled Cassada) and his first novel, The Hunters, are legendary in military circles for their descriptions of flying and aerial combat. A former Air Force pilot who flew F-86 fighters in Korea, Salter writes with matchless insight about the terror and exhilaration of the pilot's life.
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( "As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is ...)
"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, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a young French girl. There is the seen and the unseen--and pages that burn with a rare intensity.
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( James Salter had written two novels, The Hunters and Th...)
James Salter had written two novels, The Hunters and The Arm of Flesh, but it was his third, remarkable novel, A Sport and a Pastime, together with his film Three and a script he had written for Downhill Racer, that in 1969 elicited a letter of admiration from a writer and critic he did not know—Robert Phelps. The correspondence that resulted went on to span two decades. The letters themselves are exceptionally alive, uninhibited, gossipy, touching, and brilliant. The success of Salter and the struggles of Phelps are fully explored by the writers themselves in an honest exchange only letters can divulge. Along with an insightful foreword by Michael Dirda, this book gives voice to a nearly forgotten figure and his friendship with a man he admired.
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( This novel exposes the obsession that draws climbers aw...)
This novel exposes the obsession that draws climbers away from civilization to test themselves against the most intimidating and inaccessible mountains in the world. James Salter captures the adventure of Gary, a roofer of churches, who feels restrained by conventions and flat ground. Unable to find happiness in his life, he travels to southern France to climb to the summits of the Alps. He finds peace and happiness within himself soon after. But when fellow climbers are trapped on the mountain, he makes a daring one-man rescue during a storm that brings him the notice he has always shunned. But the glory quickly dissapates and he returns to the anonymity he prefers, having thoroughly satisfied himself.
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(This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner Jam...)
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 near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach. But even as he lingers over the surface of their marriage, Salter lets us see the fine cracks that are spreading through it, flaws that will eventually mar the lovely picture beyond repair. Seductive, witty, and elegantly nuanced, Light Years is a classic novel of an entire generation that discovered the limits of its own happiness—and then felt compelled to destroy it.
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(James Salter revisits his second novel, The Arm of Flesh,...)
James Salter revisits his second novel, The Arm of Flesh, making extensive changes and rewriting many portions entirely. The resulting work Cassada combines the untamed vision of a young military pilot with the clarity and power of a masterful writer.. James Salter is one of America's greatest prose stylists. His first two novels, The Hunters and The Arm of Flesh , are legendary in military circles for their descriptions of aerial combat. A former Air Force pilot who flew F-86 fighters in Korea, Salter writes with matchless insight about the terror and exhilaration of a pilot in wartime.The lives of officers in an Air Force squadron in occupied Europe encompass the contradictions of military experience and the men's response to a young newcomer, bright and ambitious, whose fate is to be an emblem of their own. 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. One of Americas greatest prose stylists, James Salter is often praised by literary readers for the clear, shimmering surface of his writing. His first two novels, The Hunters and The Arm of Flesh, are also known in military circles, where his descriptions of flying and combat are legendary. A former Air Force pilot who flew F-86 fighters in Korea, Salter writes with matchless insight about the terror and exhilaration that accompany a pilot in wartime.In returning to The Arm of Flesh forty years after writing it, Salter has identified structural weaknesses that have caused him to reconsider his second novel altogether. He is now engaged in a complete reworking of the narrative, an all-but-new novel entitled Cassada. The lives of officers in an Air Force squadron in occupied Europe--Captains Isbell and Wickenden, Lieutenants Sisse, Godchaux, Grace, and others--encompass the contradictions of military experience and in particular the response to a young newcomer, bright and ambitious, whose fate is to be an emblem of their own. In Cassada, Salter captures a strange comradeship of loneliness, trust, and alienation among military men ready to sacrifice all in the name of duty and pride.
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(This novel by a great author was printed in limited quant...)
This novel by a great author was printed in limited quantities. While the cover is relatively boring (in my eyes) the fact that you own one means something...Indeed, you "can't judge a book merely by its cover" can you? ;-)
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Salter, James was born on June 10, 1925 in Passaic, New Jersey, United States.
Bachelor of Science, United States Military Academy, 1945; Master in International Affairs, Georgetown University, 1950.
( James Salter had written two novels, The Hunters and Th...)
(The author of the PEN/Faulkner and PEN/Malamud Award-winn...)
( The lives of officers in an Air Force squadron in occup...)
( "As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is ...)
( This novel exposes the obsession that draws climbers aw...)
(This memoir tells the story of James Salter's life to dat...)
( This collection offers two dozen essays and sketches ab...)
( A singular life often circles around a singular moment,...)
(This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner Jam...)
(James Salter revisits his second novel, The Arm of Flesh,...)
(This novel by a great author was printed in limited quant...)
Lieutenant Colonel United States Air Force, 1960.
Married Ann Altemus, June 6, 1951 (divorced 1976). Children: Allan Conard, Nina Tobe, Claude Cray, James Owen. Married Kay Eldredge.
1 child, Theo Shaw.