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    A Sport and a Pastime: Picador Classic

    James Salter

    The seductive classic that established Salter’s reputation as one of the finest prose stylists of our time

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    Light Years

    James Salter

    Nedra 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…

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    James Salter

    Jeffrey Meyers

    The first full-length study of James Salter in twenty-six years, this book is intended to introduce Salter to new readers and show his achievement as a writer of novels, stories…

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    The Silk Industry of Great Britain, and its Revival

    James Salter-Whiter

    Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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    The Silk Industry of Great Britain, and its Revival

    James Salter-Whiter

    Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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    Between Meals

    A. J. Liebling

    An account of a year spent eating and living in 1920s Paris - an acerbic, affectionate classic of great food writing

    While on a year of study in Paris in…

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    James Salter

    William Dowie

    Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.

    Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…

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    Conversations with James Salter

    Collects interviews published from 1972 to 2014 with the award-winning author of The Hunters, A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years, and All That Is. Gathered here are his earliest…

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    Conversations with James Salter

    James Salter has been known throughout his career as a writer’s writer , acclaimed by such literary greats as Susan Sontag, Richard Ford, John Banville, and Peter Matthiessen for his…

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    There And Then: The Travel Writing of James Salter

    James Salter

    A collection offering two dozen essays and sketches about one of the passions of Salter’s life, travel, a subject beloved by writers across the centuries.

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    A Study Guide for James Salter’s Last Night

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    A Study Guide for James Salter’s Last Night, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…

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    El Arte de la Ficcion

    James Salter

    The Art of Fiction presents the three lectures that James Salter delivered at the University of Virginia, only months before he died, at the age of eighty nine. The elegance…

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    Last Night

    James Salter

    Korean edition of LAST NIGHT is an exquisite collection of 10 short stories by James Salter, author of Dusk and Other Stories which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award. In the…

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    The Triumphs of the Holy Jesus: Or, a Divine Poem of the Birth, Life, Death, and Resurrection, of Our Saviour.

    James Salter

    Title: The Triumphs of the Holy Jesus: or, A Divine Poem of the Birth, Life, Death, and Resurrection, of our Saviour.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the…

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    All That Is

    James Salter

    A literary event–a major new novel, his first work of fiction in seven years, from the universally acclaimed master and PEN/Faulkner winner: a sweeping, seductive love story set in post-World…

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    All That Is

    James Salter

    A literary event–a major new novel, his first work of fiction in seven years, from the universally acclaimed master and PEN/Faulkner winner: a sweeping, seductive love story set in post-World…

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    All That Is

    James Salter

    A literary event–a major new novel, his first work of fiction in seven years, from the universally acclaimed master and PEN/Faulkner winner: a sweeping, seductive love story set in post-World…

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    Anos Luz

    James Salter

    Taitulo original: Light years –Title page verso.

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    Juego y Distraccion

    James Salter

    Set in provincial France in the 1960s, this is the intensely carnal story?part shocking reality, part feverish dream ?of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a young…

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    Todo Lo Que Hay

    James Salter

    A New York Times Notable Book and an NPR Great Reads that explores a life unfolding in a world of change. Philip Bowman returns to America from the battlefields of…

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    Last Night

    James Salter

    A superbly accomplished new collection explores the acclaimed author’s signature themes: love, honor, sacrifice, friendship, and abandon. In these taut, powerful stories, Salter portrays men and women in their most…

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    All That Is: A Novel

    James Salter

    A major new novel from the universally acclaimed master and PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter. A sweeping, seductive love story set in the years after World War II.

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    Last Night: Stories

    James Salter

    A heartbreaking collection of stories from one of America’s finest living writers.

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    Burning the Days

    James Salter

    An unforgettable book of passion, ambition, and what it means to become a writer.

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    The Hunters

    James Salter

    During the Korean conflict, fighter pilot Cleve Connell goes to war determined to chalk up enough enemy kills to make him a flying ace. But he endures boredom and a…

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    Cassada

    James Salter

    Retells the tale of the lives of a squadron of Air Force pilots in occupied France during wartime.

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    The Hunters

    James Salter

    Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal: to become an ace, one of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. But as his…

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    All That Is

    James Salter

    A major new novel from the universally acclaimed master and PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter. A sweeping, seductive love story set in the years after World War II.

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    Light Years

    James Salter

    This exquisite, resonant novel is a brilliant portrait of marriage by a contemporary American master. Even as he lingers over the lustrous surface of Viri and Nedra’s marriage, James Salter…

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    Burning the Days: Recollection

    James Salter

    Whether he is describing the icy purity of the Korean sky in the instant before it is shattered by a huge formation of MIGs, the light of Paris at dawn…

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    The Hunters: A Novel

    James Salter

    During the Korean conflict, fighter pilot Cleve Connell goes to war determined to chalk up enough enemy kills to make him a flying ace. But he endures boredom and a…

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    A Sport and a Pastime

    James Salter

    In a small French town in the 1950s, a Yale dropout has an affair with a pretty local shop girl, imagined in every erotic detail by a solitary compatriot. James…

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    Solo Faces: A Novel

    James Salter

    With prose at once stark and lyrical, Salter elucidates the spirit of those who abandon material pursuits in search of an unspoiled honesty. He tells of one man’s quest to…

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    Gods Of Tin: The Flying Years

    James Salter,Jessica Benton,William Benton

    A singular life often circles around a singular moment, an occasion when one’s life in the world is defined forever and the emotional vocabulary set. For writer James Salter, this…

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    Don’t Save Anything: Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles

    James Salter

    Sentence for sentence Salter is the master. –Richard Ford, author of Let Me Be Frank with You

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    Memorable Days

    James Salter,Robert Phelps

    James Salter had written two novels, The Hunters and The Arm of Flesh, but it was his third, remarkable novel, A Sport and a Pastime, together with his film Three…

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    Dusk and Other Stories

    James Salter

    Offers a collection of stories that expose the surface beauty of relationships and places, as well as their underlying flaws, reflecting the moments, experiences, and details that shape lives.

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    The Art of Fiction

    James Salter

    Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Lectures for 2014.

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    Solo Faces

    James Salter

    Rand’s passion is climbing - mountains, the huge vertical faces. There, where storms, snow, or rockfall can kill, he finds his happiness, sometimes climbing with others, sometimes alone. Not intending…

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    A Sport and a Pastime

    James Salter

    Philip Dean, a gifted Yale dropout, has an affair with a girl in a small French town in the 1950s. His compatriot, with whom he is staying, imagines their relationship…

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    Francis Bacon: Human Presence

    Featuring works from the 1950s onwards, this book explores Francis Bacon's deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre.

    From his responses to portraiture by…

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    The Life and Times of James W. Grimes

    William Salter

    Governor Of Iowa, 1854-58; A Senator Of The United States 1859-1869.

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    The Life and Times of James W. Grimes

    William Salter

    Governor Of Iowa, 1854-58; A Senator Of The United States 1859-1869.

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    The Life of James W. Grimes: Governor of Iowa, 1854-1858; a Senator of the United States, 1859-1869

    William Salter

    The Life of James W. Grimes - Governor of Iowa, 1854-1858; a Senator of the United States, 1859-1869 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876. Hansebooks…

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    The Life of James W. Grimes: Governor of Iowa, 1854-1858, a Senator of the United States, 1859-1869.

    William Salter

    Title: The life of James W. Grimes: Governor of Iowa, 1854-1858, a senator of the United States, 1859-1869.Author: William SalterPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography…

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    The Life of James W. Grimes: Governor of Iowa, 1854-1858; A Senator of the United States, 1859-1869 (1876)

    William Salter

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    The Life of James W. Grimes: Governor of Iowa, 1854-1858; A Senator of the United States, 1859-1869 (1876)

    William Salter

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…

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