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Jun 9, 2024 · One of the first great American novels to speak frankly of human desire free of guilt and shame, A Sport and a Pastime inspired Reynolds Price to call it "as nearly perfect as any American fiction I know." This ebook edition features an illustrated biography of James Salter including rare photos from the author's personal collection. …
Jun 15, 2024 · James A. Horowitz. Born: June 10, 1925, Passaic, New Jersey, U.S. Died: June 19, 2015, Sag Harbor, New York (aged 90) Notable Works: “A Sport and a Pastime”. “The Hunters”. Learn about James Salter, his childhood and how he got interested in literature.
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Jun 4, 2024 · A Sport and a Pastime, Solo Faces, and Dusk and Other Stories. by James Salter. Most guys might not know Salter, but I like to call him the thinker’s Hemingway. No intended shade to Papa. I fell for Salter’s fiction in grad school. Solo Faces goes rugged into the world of mountaineering.
Jun 14, 2024 · James Salter (1925-2015) was the last great postwar American writer and one of the last true heroes of ‘the greatest generation’. Yet he is still not well known in Britain and much of the Anglophone world.
Jun 6, 2024 · When we settled on Salter, our options were A Sport and a Pastime, his break-out novel, and Light Years, widely considered his masterpiece. I told the group what I knew of both –– that one was apparently very sexy and the other very sad: The eternal quandary: sexy or sad?
Jun 21, 2024 · Interviews with Robert Redford, Robert Ginna, Nick Antosca, and James Salter on the latter's works, from the documentary James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime (2011). (more)
