James Salter

• Sep-2016
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• May-2013
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• Apr-2013
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An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II. From his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinaw...

• Jun-2010
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• Jun-2009
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Over the last century air travel has evolved from a high-risk experiment involving a few visionary pioneers to an efficient -- and often irritating -- means for distributing masses of people to the far reaches of the globe. During the hundred-year hi...

• Sep-2006
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"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, James S...

• Apr-2005
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Last Night 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...

• Dec-2001
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In Cassada, Salter captures the strange comradeship of loneliness, trust, and alienation among military men ready to sacrifice all in the name of duty and pride.The lives of officers in an Air Force squadron in occupied Europe encompass the contradic...

• Aug-1999
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Captain Cleve Connell has already made a name for himself among pilots when he arrives in Korea during the war there to fly the newly operational F -- 86 fighters against the Soviet MIGs. His goal, like that of every fighter pilot, is to chalk up eno...

• 1988
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First published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital -- each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literar...

• Jun-1980
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This novel exposes the obsession that draws climbers away from civilization to test themselves against the most intimidating and inaccessible mountains in the world.

James Salter captures the adventure of Gary, a roofer of churches, who feels...

• Jan-1977
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A brilliant portrait of a marriage from the PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and author of A Sport and a Pastime, with an introduction by Richard Ford."Light Years is a novel of almost holy radiance to me. It is great in every sense of the word: vast, and t...