Dusk and Other Stories - Softcover

Salter, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865473897 ISBN 13: 9780865473898

Publisher: North Point Pr, 1989

Synopsis

Dusk and Other Stories is James Salter's only short-story collection. Virtuosic and exquisitely compressed, these stories show Salter at his best. The collection received the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award.

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Review:

This short-story collection won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award for James Salter, author of Solo Faces and A Sport and A Pastime. Here, Salter's themes are memory and loss, the demands of honor and the inherent betrayals of sexual relations. Salter works like a miniaturist, evoking vast landscapes in a few lines: "Nothing is safe except for an hour," he writes in one beautiful story, opening up a whole world-view. Often, at the end of a story that runs only a few pages, the perspective suddenly broadens, the prose elevates to an abstract lyricism, and the reader is transported.

About the Author:

James Salter was born in New Jersey in 1926 and is the author of The Hunters, The Arm of Flesh, A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years, Solo Faces, and a memoir, Burning the Days. He lives in Aspen, Colorado, and Long Island, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: North Point Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0865473897
• ISBN 13: 9780865473898
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 157