Burning the Days
'A masterwork of memory, deeply impressive and deeply moving'Time OutThis 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.'A wonderful book by a sensitive author who is romantic, intelligent, and superbly…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4472-5070-8
- EAN: 9781447250708
- Produktnummer: 16084605
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.0 cm x D3.0 cm 289 g
- Gewicht: 289
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
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), The Hunters and All That Is; 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 lives in New York and Colorado.
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