Burning the Days Recollection (Ambassador Book Awards)

Name: Burning the Days Recollection (Ambassador Book Awards)
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ISBN: 9780394759487

ISBN-10: 0394759486

ISBN-13: 9780394759487

Edition: N/A

Authors: James Salter, James Salter

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In this brilliant book of recollection, one of America's finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some fifty years, bringing to life an entire era through one man's sensibility. Scenes of love and desire, friendship, ambition, life in foreign cities and New York, are unforgettably rendered here in the unique style for which James Salter is widely admired. Burning the Days captures a singular life, beginning with a Manhattan boyhood and then, satisfying his father's wishes, graduation from West Point, followed by service in the Air Force as a pilot. In some of the most evocative pages ever written about flying, Salter describes the exhilaration and terror of combat as a…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/29/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.89" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

James Salter is the author of 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 Tinand Burning the Days; and two collections of short stories, Dusk and Other Stories(which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award), and Last Night. He lives in Colorado and on Long Island.