Light Years James Salter

Salter focuses on a couple who usually have a supporting role in other novels.

Light years james salter. The fading grass the trees the very light made him dizzy as if he were an invalid or starving. Salter celebrates the silver and golden bitterness of life. In memory of james salter who died last week the daily is republishing a series of essays from 2011 when salter received the paris review s hadada prize in today s piece jhumpa lahiri writes about light years. James salter s 1975 novel light years is the story of a marriage between two highly civilised americans nedra the woman and viri the man.

James salter light years. About light years this exquisite resonant novel by pen faulkner winner james salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary american master. Light years is a novel about a marriage and about home home only sometimes the place where the heart is. Light years is a masterpiece elizabeth benedict philadelphia inquirer remarkable.

Salter celebrates the silver and golden bitterness of life. It is the story of nedra and viri whose favored life is centered around dinners ingenious games with their children enviable friends and near perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach. July 2 1975 long ago it appeared here in 1967 james salter wrote one of the few genuinely erotic books a sport and a pastime within memory. Light years has much of his sensuous elegance and ease subdued by the years which also lend the primary distancing effect there is almost none of that insatiable fever of the flesh.

All during the proceedings they lived as they always had as if nothing were going on. Becomes an unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by time james wolcott esquire a twentieth century masterpiece. The kind of restless disaffected showy promiscuous couple who provide an inkling that there s something rotten in the state of denmark. He caught the aroma of his own life passing.

To learn more about salter read his 1993 art of fiction interview or one of his stories from the magazine. Becomes an unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by time james wolcott esquire a twentieth century masterpiece. Light years is a masterpiece elizabeth benedict philadelphia inquirer remarkable.