Burning the Days

This brilliant memoir brings to life an entire era through the sensibility of one of America's finest authors. Recollecting fifty years of love, desire and friendship, Burning the Days traces the life of a singular man, who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before reinventing himself as a writer in the New York of the 1960s. It features - in Salter's uniquely beautiful style - some of the most evocative pages about flying ever written, together with portraits of the actors, directors and authors who influenced him. This is a book that through its sheer sensual force not only recollects the past, but reclaims it.

A propos de l'auteur

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), The Hunters and All That Is; 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: James Salter
• Edition: Picador Uk
• Langues: Anglais
• Recommandation d'âge: à partir de 18 ans
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 31.07.2014
• EAN: 9781447250708
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-5070-8
• Pages: 400
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 200 mm x 26 mm
• Thème: Picador
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; English, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000