James Salter

An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master, here is a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II....

In this brilliant audiobook of recollection, one of America's finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some 50 years....

Captain Cleve Connell has already made a name for himself among pilots when he arrives in Korea during the war there to fly the newly operational F-86 fighters against the Soviet MIGs....

This is American fiction at its most vital - each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literary grace....

Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story - part shocking reality, part feverish dream - of a love affair between a Yale dropout and a young French girl....

This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master....

James Salter was a master. One of the greatest writers of American sentences in our literary history, his acute and glimmering portrayals of characters are built with a restrained and poetic style....

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....

James Salter revisits his second novel, The Arm of Flesh, making extensive changes and rewriting many portions entirely....

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

From his experiences as a naval officer in Japan during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America and becomes a book editor....

La Seconde Guerre mondiale touche à sa fin. À bord d'un porte-avions au large du Japon, Philip Bowman rentre aux États-Unis...