by James Salter · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498382570
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In 'Burning the Days', James Salter, one of the great contemporary American writers, offers us a memoir that John Irving describes as 'better than many good novels'. This incomplete and selective volume narrates a life full of events and extraordinary people, from Manhattan to West Point, through the experience of flying and the effervescence of New York, Paris, and Rome. With a mixture of candor and intelligence, Salter shares his passions: Europe, women, and literature. A captivating book about the process of learning to live and write, the nature of time, desire, pleasure, and lost opportunities.
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.
