Overview : James Salter (1925-2015) has been known throughout his career as a writer's writer, acclaimed by such literary greats as Susan Sontag, Rich... Read More
Overview :Biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers knew the novelist James Salter (1925-2015) during the last decade of his life, visited him twice on Lon... Read More
Overview :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, togeth... Read More
Overview :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, togethe... Read More
Overview :The lives of officers in an Air Force squadron in occupied Europe encompass the contradictions of military experience and the men's response... Read More
Overview :Solo Faces exposes the obsession that draws climbers away from civilization to test themselves against the most intimidating and inaccessibl... Read More
Overview :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 operat... Read More
Overview :Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion-by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devast... Read More
Overview :Over the last century air travel has evolved from a high-risk experiment involving a few visionary pioneers to an efficient--and often irrit... Read More
Overview :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... Read More
Overview :James Salter's exalted place in American letters is based largely on the intense admiration of other writers, but his work resonates far bey... Read More
Overview :James W. Grimes was a prominent figure in the history of Iowa, serving as the state's governor and later as a U.S. Senator. This biography b... Read More