All That Is - Hardcover

Salter, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1447238249 ISBN 13: 9781447238249

Publisher: Picador, 2013

Synopsis

1st UK ed. DJ is fine. Unread

About this title

Review:

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, April 2013: By starting the life story of Phillip Bowman in the last days of World War II, Salter sets the tone for the rest of this remarkable book. “The outcome of great battles could hinge on resolve,” he writes, and Bowman is all about resolve. But beneath the deceptively straightforward coming-of-age and growing-old narrative--boy meets girl, loses girl; meets, loses; meets, loses--lurks the deeply personal story of what it meant to be a 20th century man. Bowman is the archetype of the flawed, ambitious, lust-filled American male. He’s Don Draper. He’s Rabbit Angstrom. He’s your dad. He’s my dad. (Also named Phil; also from New Jersey.) What’s truly astounding here is the writing, from a master who happens to be an octogenarian. Salter crafts beautiful sentences. He creates characters, lives, entire worlds in just a page or two. He’s also capable of some blushingly evocative sex scenes--again, impressive for a man approaching 90. Profound and lush, this is a book to savor. It’s the sweeping story of a complicated, error-filled, fully wrung-out life. A guy’s life. A good life. --Neal Thompson

About the Author:

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), and The Hunters; 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, He is the recipient of the Rea Award for the Short Story and the PEN/Malamud Award. Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days, was written with his wife, Kay Salter. He lives in New York and Colorado.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1447238249
• ISBN 13: 9781447238249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304