Burning the Days by James Salter
'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 1960s. 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.
'It is years since I read a sharper, more arresting autobiography' Spectator 'A stylish and moving account of his various incarnations as a fighter pilot, rock climber, screenwriter and novelist.. written in the heroic language of an American memoir' New Statesman 'He has written three books that everyone should read before they die: A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years and his recollections, Burning the Days' Independent 'A masterwork of memory, deeply impressive and deeply moving' Time Out
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 won the Rea Award for the Short Story and the PEN/Malamud Award; and Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days, written with Kay Salter. He died in 2015.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330448826 |
| ISBN 10 | 033044882X |
| Title | Burning the Days |
| Author | James Salter |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2007-03-02 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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