Burning the Days
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LJ Ganser
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James Salter
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In this brilliant audiobook of recollection, one of America's finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some 50 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 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. In some of the most evocative pages ever written about flying, Salter describes the exhilaration and terror of combat as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, scenes that are balanced by haunting pages of love and a young man's passion for women. After resigning from the Air Force, Salter begins a second life, becoming a writer in the New York of the 1960s. Soon films beckon.
There are vivid portraits of actors, directors, and producers - Polanski, Robert Redford, and others. Here also, more important, are writers who were influential, some by their character, like Irwin Shaw, others because of their taste and knowledge. Ultimately, Burning the Days is an illumination of what it is to be a man, and what it means to become a writer. Only once in a long while - Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory or Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa - does a memoir of such extraordinary clarity and power appear. Unconventional in form, Burning the Days is a stunning achievement by the writer The Washington Post Book World said "inhabits the same rarefied heights as Flannery O'Connor, Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams and John Cheever" - a rare and unforgettable book.
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- De Sierra en 08-03-16
De: Roberto Bolano
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The Night Ocean
- De: Paul La Farge
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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Marina Willett, MD, has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H. P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends - or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears.
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Frustratingly Uneven Due to Clumsy Plot Structure
- De Adam en 06-15-17
De: Paul La Farge
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Netherland
- De: Joseph O'Neill
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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Alone and un-tethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. Ramkissoon, a Gatsby-like figure who is part idealist and part operator, introduces Hans to an "other" New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality.
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Get Your Post-Colonial Gatsby ON!
- De Darwin8u en 04-13-12
De: Joseph O'Neill
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The Winds of War
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 45 h y 48 m
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Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.
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A Masterpiece
- De Robert en 05-24-13
De: Herman Wouk
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Come to the Edge
- A Memoir
- De: Christina Haag
- Narrado por: Christina Haag
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep-school friends. A decade later, after they had both graduated from Brown University and were living in New York City, Christina and John were cast in an off-Broadway play together. It was then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair.
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Thoroughly enjoyed Come to the Edge
- De CapeCodLady en 11-15-19
De: Christina Haag
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The Gift
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 15 h y 39 m
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The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native language and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write - a book very much like The Gift itself.
One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899.
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A complex and rich Künstlerroman
- De Darwin8u en 11-30-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Night Soldiers
- De: Alan Furst
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 18 h y 18 m
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New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is widely recognized as master of the historical spy novel. Furst’s works are vivid evocations of long-forgotten heroes and feature plots that unfold to the inexorable cadence of history. Night Soldiers is a simultaneously thrilling and illuminating tale of espionage set in 1934.
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Best Alan Furst novel!
- De Placeholder en 04-27-11
De: Alan Furst
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Clara Callan
- De: Richard B. Wright
- Narrado por: Anne Twomey, Joanna P. Adler
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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Two sisters, small-town Ontario, 1934. Canadian author Richard Wright tells their story, from the ordinary to the extraoridinary with an eye for the commonplace and poignant sense of the larger undercurrents that change people's lives.
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charming intimate refreshing
- De L en 09-10-04
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Freddy and Fredericka
- De: Mark Helprin
- Narrado por: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Duración: 25 h y 29 m
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Best-selling, critically acclaimed author Mark Helprin's work has drawn favorable comparisons to an elite group of literary legends, including James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe, and Thomas Mann. Helprin's sheer comic brilliance shines in this ingenious farce.
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Can't rate it high enough (and I'm a tough grader)
- De Annette en 09-06-05
De: Mark Helprin
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The Hunters
- A Novel
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
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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. His goal, like that of every fighter pilot, is to chalk up enough kills to become an ace. But things do not turn out as expected.
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The Hunters
- De Nicholas en 10-25-15
De: James Salter
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The Girl in the Blue Beret
- A Novel
- De: Bobbie Ann Mason
- Narrado por: Fred Sullivan
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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Inspired by a true story, the best-selling author of In Country offers a gorgeous, haunting novel about an airline pilot coming to terms with his past, and searching for the people who saved him during World War II. After Marshall Stone's B-17 bomber was shot down in occupied Europe in 1944, people in the French Resistance helped him escape to safety.
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Needs a woman narrator for female characters
- De Patricia A Gallagher en 02-23-21
De: Bobbie Ann Mason
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The Cut Out Girl
- A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
- De: Bart van Es
- Narrado por: Bart van Es
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: A young Jewish girl named Lientje had been taken in during the war by relatives and hidden from the Nazis, handed over by her parents. The girl had been raised by her foster family as one of their own, but then, well after the war, they were no longer in touch. What was the girl's side of the story, Bart wondered? What really happened during the war and after? So began an investigation that would consume Bart van Es's life and change it.
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a powerful & unique work on the Holocaust
- De D. Littman en 03-06-19
De: Bart van Es
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Dusk
- And Other Stories
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, LJ Ganser, David Ledoux, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
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First published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital - each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literary grace.
De: James Salter
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Light Years
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends, and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach.
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Unfathomable Font of Blue: Life's Serial Goodbyes
- De W Perry Hall en 04-18-19
De: James Salter
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All That Is
- A Novel
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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After his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. It is a time when publishing is still largely a private affair - a scattered family of small houses here and in Europe - a time of gatherings in fabled apartments and conversations that continue long into the night. In this world of dinners, deals, and literary careers, Bowman finds he fits in perfectly. But despite his success, love eludes him.
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All That Isn't
- De Mary en 06-23-14
De: James Salter
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Don’t Save Anything
- Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles
- De: James Salter, Kay Eldredge Salter - preface
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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This collection gathers James Salter's thoughts on writing and profiles of famous writers, observations of the changing American military life, evocations of Aspen winters, musings on mountain climbing and skiing, and tales of travels to Europe and Asia which first appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, People magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, the Aspen Times, and many other publications.
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What a Writer of the Sentence
- De barnowl en 11-07-18
De: James Salter, y otros
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Solo Faces
- A Novel
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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Vernon Rand is a charismatic figure whose great love - whose life, in fact - is climbing. He lives alone in California, where he combats the drudgery of a roofing job with the thrill of climbing in the nearby mountain ranges. Sure of only his talent and nerve, Rand decides to test himself in the French Alps, with their true mountaineering and famed, fearsome peaks. He soon learns that the most perilous moments are, for him, the moments when he feels truly alive.
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Hemingway goes to the mountains and gets laid
- De Mark E. White en 06-16-15
De: James Salter
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The Hunters
- A Novel
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
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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. His goal, like that of every fighter pilot, is to chalk up enough kills to become an ace. But things do not turn out as expected.
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The Hunters
- De Nicholas en 10-25-15
De: James Salter
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Dusk
- And Other Stories
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, LJ Ganser, David Ledoux, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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First published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital - each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literary grace.
De: James Salter
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Light Years
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends, and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach.
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Unfathomable Font of Blue: Life's Serial Goodbyes
- De W Perry Hall en 04-18-19
De: James Salter
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All That Is
- A Novel
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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After his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. It is a time when publishing is still largely a private affair - a scattered family of small houses here and in Europe - a time of gatherings in fabled apartments and conversations that continue long into the night. In this world of dinners, deals, and literary careers, Bowman finds he fits in perfectly. But despite his success, love eludes him.
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All That Isn't
- De Mary en 06-23-14
De: James Salter
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Don’t Save Anything
- Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles
- De: James Salter, Kay Eldredge Salter - preface
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
This collection gathers James Salter's thoughts on writing and profiles of famous writers, observations of the changing American military life, evocations of Aspen winters, musings on mountain climbing and skiing, and tales of travels to Europe and Asia which first appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, People magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, the Aspen Times, and many other publications.
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What a Writer of the Sentence
- De barnowl en 11-07-18
De: James Salter, y otros
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Solo Faces
- A Novel
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Historia
Vernon Rand is a charismatic figure whose great love - whose life, in fact - is climbing. He lives alone in California, where he combats the drudgery of a roofing job with the thrill of climbing in the nearby mountain ranges. Sure of only his talent and nerve, Rand decides to test himself in the French Alps, with their true mountaineering and famed, fearsome peaks. He soon learns that the most perilous moments are, for him, the moments when he feels truly alive.
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Hemingway goes to the mountains and gets laid
- De Mark E. White en 06-16-15
De: James Salter
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The Hunters
- A Novel
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General
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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. His goal, like that of every fighter pilot, is to chalk up enough kills to become an ace. But things do not turn out as expected.
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The Hunters
- De Nicholas en 10-25-15
De: James Salter
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- Christiane Andries
- 04-12-21
For insiders
These recollections contain some interesting chapters like the picturing of the West Point Academy. Most of the book is in my opinion only interesting for insiders of the air force and The American litterary world. It is an endless series of names and encounters, hard to keep resding. A more focused description could give a feeling of the the period and social life, the view on women which ls both superficial and full of sexidm, the endless drinking..
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