by James Salter · Salamandra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498380705
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«La última noche» is the short story collection by James Salter, published by Salamandra in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together ten stories centred on relationships between men and women and on intimacy, with love, desire, disillusionment and solitude as their axes. In the title story, a woman terminally ill with cancer asks her husband and a friend to help her die, with unexpected consequences for all three. Salter portrays the memory of happiness and the effects of betrayal, and asks whether time changes us or condemns us to repeat the same mistakes.
The work was originally published as «Last Night» in 2005; this Spanish edition was translated by Luis Murillo Fort and belongs to the Salamandra Narrativa collection.
For readers of contemporary short fiction and psychological narrative seeking the restrained prose of an author admired by John Irving, Richard Ford and Susan Sontag.
James Arnold Horowitz, better known as James Salter, his pen name and later-adopted legal name, was an American novelist and short-story writer. Originally a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force, he resigned from the military in 1957 following the successful publication of his first novel, The Hunters.
