{"product_id":"light-years-paperback-1","title":"Light Years - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant portrait of a marriage from the PEN\/Faulkner Award-winner and author of \u003ci\u003eA Sport and a Pastime\u003c\/i\u003e, with an introduction by Richard Ford. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLight Years\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of almost holy radiance to me. It is great in every sense of the word: vast, and timeless, and enduring.\"--Lauren Groff, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Remarkable. An unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by time.\"--James Wolcott, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] twentieth-century masterpiece. At once iridescent, lyrical, mystical and magnetic.\"--\u003ci\u003eBloomsbury Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNedra and Viri's favored life revolves around delightful dinners, imaginative games with their children, enviable friends, and idyllic days spent skating on a frozen river or basking in the sun on the beach. But even as Salter lingers over the surface of their marriage, he lets us see the fine cracks that are spreading through it, flaws that will eventually mar the lovely picture beyond repair. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeductive, witty, and elegantly nuanced, \u003ci\u003eLight Years\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic novel of an entire generation that discovered the limits of its own happiness--and then felt compelled to destroy it.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis exquisite, resonant novel is a brilliant portrait of marriage by a contemporary American master. Even as he lingers over the lustrous surface of Viri and Nedra's marriage, James Salter makes us see the cracks that are spreading through it, flaws that will in time mar it beyond repair. \"An unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67951074705631,"sku":"9780679740735","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/t2HI7cFw9r9780679740735.webp?v=1791604264","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/light-years-paperback-1","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}