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Light Years

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This 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."
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James Salter was born in New Jersey in 1926 and is the author of The Hunters, The Arm of Flesh, Solo Faces, Light Years, Dusk and Other Stories (winner of the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award), and a memoir, Burning the Days. He lives in Aspen, Colorado, and Long Island, New York.
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Jenny Steele, August 21, 2007 (view all comments by Jenny Steele)
If Virginia Woolf had been a 1970's American, she might have written a novel like Light Years. The story skims along - cocktail parties, holidays, affairs, triumphs, failures - and then, wham!, a devastating observation about a character or a situation. A very Woolf-like technique, it seems to me. A good, satisfying read.
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ISBN:
9780679740735
Author:
Salter, James
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Married people
Subject:
Divorced people
Copyright:
1975
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
Vintage Intl
Series Volume:
[v. 32, no. 47]
Publication Date:
January 1995
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
802x515x70 53
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