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A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
$18.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes Paris in a borrowed, once elegant car. He begins a mismatched affair with a young shop girl named Anne-Marie. Together they burn in an everyday but stunningly sensual paradise. A Sport and A Pastime established ...Show more
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, pa ...Show more
A Sport and a Pastime: Picador Classic by James Salter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Sarah Hall The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes Paris in a borrowed, once elegant car. He begins a mismatched affair with a young shop girl named Anne-Marie. Together they burn in an everyday but stunningly sensual paradise. ...Show more
All That Is by James Salter
$19.98 AUD
Category: Fiction
All 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 parti ...Show more
Collected Stories by James Salter
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Category: Fiction
With an introduction by John Banville. From his first published story in the Paris Review in 1968, James Salter's stories have been universally acclaimed. Including his two published collections, Dusk and Other Stories (1988) and Last Night (2005), and the previously uncollected 'Charisma', this volume ...Show more
Don't Save AnythingThe Uncollected Writings of James Salter by James Salter
$38.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
"The collection offers something for every taste, along with a fascinating mosaic-like view of Salter's unfailingly interesting life." --Harper's Bazaar, 1 of 8 New Books You Need to Read in November One of the greatest writers of American sentences in our literary history, James Salter's acute and gli ...Show more
Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
First published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital - each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literary grace. Two New York attorneys newly flush with wealth ...Show more
LIGHT YEARS by SALTER JAMES
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends, and near-perfect days passe ...Show more
Light Years by James Salter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Negra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach. But fine cracks are beginning to spread through the shimmering surface of their life - ...Show more
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