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'Fantastic. The benchmark for great food writing' Anthony Bourdain
'The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good
appetite' Between Meals is the gourmand and journalist A.J.
Liebling's delectable account of his time spent eating and drinking
in 1920s Paris, under the tutelage of his friend Yves Mirande, 'one
of the last of the great around-the-clock gastronomes of France'.
With gluttonous joie de vivre, he fondly recalls everything from
glorious dining ('A leg of lamb larded with anchovies, artichokes
on a pedestal of foie gras, and four or five kinds of cheese') to
bad rosé ('a pinkish cross between No-Cal and vinegar'), and an
ill-fated sojourn at a Swiss slimming-clinic. Witty, tart and full
of gusto, this is a love song to food, wine and Paris. 'Liebling
transfers excitement, warmth, wit and information ... as hearty and
explicit as good Calvados' The New York Times Book Review With an
introduction by James Salter
With an introduction by Sarah Hall The 1960s. Philip Dean, a
footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes
Paris in a borrowed, once elegant car. He begins a mismatched
affair with a young shop girl named Anne-Marie. Together they burn
in an everyday but stunningly sensual paradise. A Sport and A
Pastime is a seductive classic that established James Salter's
reputation as one of the finest writers of our time. It is
remarkable for its eroticism, its luminous prose and its ability to
explore the boundaries between what is dreamt and what is lived,
between body and soul.
All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of
change. The life is that of Philip Bowman and we see his formative
experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, his
post-war career as a book editor in New York, his trips to the
great European cities - for publishing parties in London, romantic
holidays in Paris. But despite his success, what eludes him is
love. His first marriage goes bad, another fails to happen, finally
he meets a woman who enthrals him before setting him on a course he
could never imagine for himself. James Salter's dazzling, seductive
and haunting novel offers a fiercely intimate account of the great
shocks and grand pleasures of being alive.
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Light Years (Paperback)
James Salter; Introduction by Richard Ford
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Nedra 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.
"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.
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 1960s. Burning the
Days showcases James 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.
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 his first novel, Salter left
behind a military career of great promise to write full-time
and--through decades of searching, exacting work--became one of
American literature's master stylists. Only months before he died,
at the age of eighty-nine, he agreed to serve as the first Kapnick
Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia, where he
composed and delivered the three lectures presented in this book
and introduced by his friend and fellow novelist, National Book
Award-winning author John Casey. Salter speaks to us here with an
easy intimacy, sharing his unceasing enchantment with the books
that made up his reading life, including works by Balzac, Flaubert,
Babel (whose prose is ""like a handful of radium""), Dreiser,
Celine, Faulkner. These talks provide an invaluable opportunity to
see the way in which a great writer reads. They also offer a candid
look at the writing life--the rejection letters, not one but two
negative reviews in the New York Times for the same book, writing
in the morning or at night and worrying about money during the long
afternoons. Salter raises the question, Why does one write? For
wealth? For admiration, or a sense of ""importance""? Confronting a
blank sheet that always offers too many choices, practicing a
vocation that often demands one write instead of live, the answer
for Salter was creating a style that captured experience, in a
world where anything not written down fades away. Kapnick
Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Lectures
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 enough kills to
become an ace. But things do not turn out as expected. Mission
after mission proves fruitless, and Connell finds his ability and
his stomach for combat questioned by his fellow airmen: the brash
wing commander, Imil; Captain Robey, an ace whose record is
suspect; and finally, Lieutenant Pell, a cocky young pilot with an
uncanny amount of skill and luck. Disappointment and fear gradually
erode Connell's faith in himself, and his dream of making ace seems
to slip out of reach. Then suddenly, one dramatic mission above the
Yalu River reveals the depth of his courage and honor. Originally
published in 1956, The Hunters was James Salter's first novel.
Based on his own experiences as a fighter pilot in the Korean War,
it is a classic of wartime fiction. Now revised by the author and
back in print on the sixty-fifth anniversary of the Air Force, the
story of Cleve Connell's war flies straight into the heart of men's
rivalries and fears.
Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion -
by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring
and devastating. A lover of poetry is asked by his wife to give up
what may be his most treasured friendship. A book dealer is forced
to face the truth when a figure from his past pays an unexpected
visit. In the title story, a husband has promised to assist his
wife's suicide. Drawn in by a lingering swirl of tone, revelation
and insight, the reader of these ten powerful stories will be
transfixed as, seemingly without effort, Salter finds the charged
moments that will come to shape a fate and detonates them before
our very eyes.
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.
This exquisite, resonant novel is a brilliant portrait of marriage by a contemporary American master. Even as he lingers over the lustrous surface of Viri and Nedra's marriage, James Salter makes us see the cracks that are spreading through it, flaws that will in time mar it beyond repair. "An unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by time."
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Cassada (Paperback)
James Salter
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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.
Title: The Triumphs of the Holy Jesus: or, A Divine Poem of the
Birth, Life, Death, and Resurrection, of our Saviour.Publisher:
British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is
the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the
world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items
in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers,
sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books
reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society,
ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many
classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection
has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Salter, James; 1692. 4 . 1077.l.3.(2.)
Title: A Trip to South Africa.Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This
collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and
documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also
included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of
trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and
the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Whiter, James Salter;
1892. 247 p.; 8 . 10097.ccc.13.
Title: A Trip to South Africa.Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This
collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and
documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also
included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of
trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and
the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Whiter, James Salter;
1892. 247 p.; 8 . 10097.ccc.13.
Beginning with a letter of admiration for James Salter's novel A
Sport and a Pastime, the correspondence between Robert Phelps and
James Salter developed into a long friendship spanning two decades.
These letters give an intimate look at the professional and
personal trials of each author and their mutually supportive
relationship. James Salter had written the novels The Hunters and
The Arm of Flesh, both of which draw upon his time in the Air Force
during the Korean War. However, it was Salter's film, Three, that
compelled Robert Phelps to continue the conversation with another
beautiful letter. What resulted are more than two hundred letters
that provide insight into why Phelps's fictional work remained
largely unfinished after his debut novel, Heroes and Orators. The
success of one man and the struggles of another are fully revealed
by the men themselves in this collection of letters, giving a voice
to a nearly forgotten author and his friendship with a man he
admired.
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Last Night (Paperback)
James Salter
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From a writer whose every book is a literary event, a superbly
accomplished work of fiction. "Last Night is a spellbinding
collection of stories about passion-by turns fiery and subdued,
destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating.
In ten powerful stories, Salter portrays men and women in their
most intimate moments. A book dealer faces the truth about his
life-as it is and never will be again-when he is visited
unexpectedly by his brash former girlfriend. A lonely married
woman, after a disturbing encounter with a drunken poet at a dinner
party, finds herself irresistibly drawn to his animal surrogate, a
huge tawny-eyed dog. A lover of poetry must come to terms with his
wife's request to give up what may be his most treasured
relationship. And in the title story, already hailed by Frank
Conroy as "a masterpiece, clearly and without question," a
translator, tormented by an agonizing sense of inevitability,
assists in his wife's suicide even as he performs a last betrayal.
A haunting symphony of desire, memory, and loss-from a writer whose
assured style and emotional insight make him one of our most
compelling voices at work today.
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Solo Faces (Paperback)
James Salter; Introduction by Andy Cave
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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.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A "New York Times" "Book Review" Notable Book
An NPR "Great Reads" Book
The eagerly-anticipated new novel from PEN/Faulkner winner James
Salter, his first in over thirty years. From the battlefields of
Okinawa to the publishing houses of New York, "All That Is" follows
one man's life--and loves--as it unfolds in a world on the brink of
change.
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