Collected Stories by James Salter
The collected stories of an American master, with a new introduction by John Banville
'It's the short stories which make him one of the greatest writers of the last century and the present one, up there with Carver and Cheever, the mind-blowing Lydia Davis - who has just won the Man Booker International Prize - and the Fitzgerald of Babylon RevisitedRepublished this month, the strongest of Salter's stories are shadowy and sinister with a whiff of his two favourite perfumes, sex and death, hanging over the scarifying prose . . . What makes the short stories perfect are the fully-mastered qualities . . . 'style, structure and authority.'' Financial Times
One of the finest American writers of his mighty generation * Esquire *
James Salter's writing has always provoked in me a kind of evangelical admiration. It is sheer brute magic. His prose is exquisite, sentences created with such acuity and efficacy it seems he re-forges language itself, makes it more purposeful and beautiful * Sarah Hall *
Robert Frost said that the hope of any poet is to lodge a few poems so deep they couldn't be dislodged, and James Salter has done that again and again. He has become an indelible presence in our literature -- Tobias Wolff * Observer *
It isn't Salter's language alone that numbers him among the masters, but it is what strikes you first -- James Meek * London Review of Books *
Books that are, quite simply, life-changingly good * Dazed & Confused *
A stylist, a purist, a guy who really socks it to you, however elegantly * Observer *
Salter is the contemporary writer most admired and envied by other writers . . . he can, when he wants, break your heart with a sentence -- Michael Dirda * Washington Post *
James Salter can suggest in a single sentence an individual's entire history -- Michiko Kakutani * New York Times *
There is scarcely a writer alive who could not learn from his passion and precision of language -- Peter Matthiessen
Sentence for sentence, Salter is the master -- Richard Ford
Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as yet unpublished books I wait for impatiently -- Susan Sontag
One of the finest American writers of his mighty generation * Esquire *
James Salter's writing has always provoked in me a kind of evangelical admiration. It is sheer brute magic. His prose is exquisite, sentences created with such acuity and efficacy it seems he re-forges language itself, makes it more purposeful and beautiful * Sarah Hall *
Robert Frost said that the hope of any poet is to lodge a few poems so deep they couldn't be dislodged, and James Salter has done that again and again. He has become an indelible presence in our literature -- Tobias Wolff * Observer *
It isn't Salter's language alone that numbers him among the masters, but it is what strikes you first -- James Meek * London Review of Books *
Books that are, quite simply, life-changingly good * Dazed & Confused *
A stylist, a purist, a guy who really socks it to you, however elegantly * Observer *
Salter is the contemporary writer most admired and envied by other writers . . . he can, when he wants, break your heart with a sentence -- Michael Dirda * Washington Post *
James Salter can suggest in a single sentence an individual's entire history -- Michiko Kakutani * New York Times *
There is scarcely a writer alive who could not learn from his passion and precision of language -- Peter Matthiessen
Sentence for sentence, Salter is the master -- Richard Ford
Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He 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 -- Susan Sontag
James Salter is the author of numerous books, including the novels Solo Faces, Light Years, A Sport and a Pastime, The Arm of Flesh (revised as Cassada), and The Hunters; the memoirs Gods of Tin and Burning the Days; the collections Dusk and Other Stories, which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award, and Last Night, which earned him the 2010 REA Prize for the short story and the 2012 PEN/Malamud Award; and Life Is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days, written with his wife, Kay Eldredge. He lives in New York and Colorado.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781447239390 |
| ISBN 10 | 1447239393 |
| Title | Collected Stories |
| Author | James Salter |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2014-07-03 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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