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/5(). Now, however, another major contribution to the genre has appeared: James Salter's Burning the Days. This splendid autobiography had its inception in , when the author wrote a trial-balloon recollection for Esquire, so he can hardly be accused of faddishness. But his book differs in another way from the current crop of memoirs, which often feature a forbidding gauntlet of familial or societal travails/5(94). 8 rows · · Scenes of love and desire, friendship, ambition, life in foreign cities and New York, are Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Reading from "Burning the Days." | Recorded Ma "If he can be described as a writer's writer," said Susan Sontag that night, as she introduced James Salter In the case of James Salter, I crave more of those sentences and paragraphs which I wish I had written or were capable of writing.". This item: Burning the Days: Recollection. by James Salter Hardcover. $ Only 1 left in stock - order soon. Salter puts the reader on notice from the very beginning that this will be a selective sort of recollection: "If you can think of life, for a moment, as a large house with a nursery, living and. Burning the days: recollection/James Salter. p. cm. eISBN: 1. Salter, James—Biography. 2. Authors, American—20th century— Biography. I. Title.
Scenes of love and desire, friendship, ambition, life in foreign cities and New York, are. Burning the Days: Recollection. by. James Salter. · Rating details · ratings · 98 reviews. 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 admir. Hello Select your address Books.
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