James Salter
All That Is
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'Magnificent' Daily Telegraph'Terrific' Daily Mail'Ravishingly sensual' Sunday TelegraphAll That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. The life is that of Philip Bowman and we see his formative experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, his post-war career as a book editor in New York, his trips to the great European cities - for publishing parties in London, romantic holidays in Spain.But despite his success, what eludes him is love. His first marriage goes bad, another fails to happen, finally he meets a woman who enthrals him before setting him on a course he could never image for himself.James S…
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'Magnificent' Daily Telegraph'Terrific' Daily Mail'Ravishingly sensual' Sunday TelegraphAll That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. The life is that of Philip Bowman and we see his formative experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, his post-war career as a book editor in New York, his trips to the great European cities - for publishing parties in London, romantic holidays in Spain.But despite his success, what eludes him is love. His first marriage goes bad, another fails to happen, finally he meets a woman who enthrals him before setting him on a course he could never image for himself.James Salter's dazzling, seductive and haunting novel offers a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures of being alive.'Exquisite' Sunday Times'Amazingly good' Guardian
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4472-3827-0
- EAN: 9781447238270
- Produktnummer: 16084592
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.5 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.6 cm 284 g
- Gewicht: 284
- 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), 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 lives in New York and Colorado.
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