{"title":"James Salter","description":"James Salter is the author of numerous books, including the novels All That Is, 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, which won the Rea Award for the Short Story and the PEN\/Malamud Award; and Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days, written with Kay Salter. James Salter died in 2015.","products":[{"product_id":"all-that-is-paperback","title":"All That Is - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBook Review\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003cbr\u003eAn NPR \"Great Reads\" Book\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll That Is\u003c\/i\u003e explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. Philip Bowman returns to America from the battlefields of Okinawa and finds success in the competetive world of publishing in postwar New York--yet what he most desires, and what eludes him, is love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere is PEN\/Faulkner winner James Salter's dazzling, sometimes devastating portrait of love and ambition, a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures of being alive.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103167025375,"sku":"9781400078424","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YaPsIGbIwe9781400078424.webp?v=1781090414"},{"product_id":"last-night-paperback","title":"Last Night - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLast Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion-by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. These ten powerful stories portray men and women in their most intimate moments. A lover of poetry is asked by his wife to give up what may be his most treasured relationship. A book dealer is forced to face the truth about his life. And in the title story, a translator assists his wife's suicide, even as he performs a last act of betrayal. James Salter's assured style and emotional insight make him one of our most essential writers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a writer whose every book is a literary event, a superbly accomplished work of fiction. \"Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion-by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. \u003cbr\u003eIn ten powerful stories, Salter portrays men and women in their most intimate moments. A book dealer faces the truth about his life-as it is and never will be again-when he is visited unexpectedly by his brash former girlfriend. A lonely married woman, after a disturbing encounter with a drunken poet at a dinner party, finds herself irresistibly drawn to his animal surrogate, a huge tawny-eyed dog. A lover of poetry must come to terms with his wife's request to give up what may be his most treasured relationship. And in the title story, already hailed by Frank Conroy as \"a masterpiece, clearly and without question,\" a translator, tormented by an agonizing sense of inevitability, assists in his wife's suicide even as he performs a last betrayal. \u003cbr\u003eA haunting symphony of desire, memory, and loss-from a writer whose assured style and emotional insight make him one of our most compelling voices at work today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104282743007,"sku":"9781400078417","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vCE0RGqKh09781400078417.webp?v=1781104564"},{"product_id":"cassada-paperback","title":"Cassada - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCassada\u003c\/i\u003e, Salter captures the strange comradeship of loneliness, trust, and alienation among military men ready to sacrifice all in the name of duty and pride.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe lives of officers in an Air Force squadron in occupied Europe encompass the contradictions of military experience and the men's response to a young newcomer, bright and ambitious, whose fate is to be an emblem of their own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter futile attempts at ordinary revision, Salter elected to begin with a blank page, to compose an entirely new novel based upon the characters and events of his second long unavailable novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Arm of Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e. The result, \u003ci\u003eCassada\u003c\/i\u003e, is a masterpiece.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104798675167,"sku":"9781619020559","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lhqvLftwHG9781619020559.webp?v=1781111342"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/james-salter.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}