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      Light Years

      by James Salter
      Published
      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 timeless, and enduring."—Lauren Groff, bestselling author of Fates and Furies

      "Remarkable. An unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by time."—James Wolcott, Esquire

      "[A] twentieth-century masterpiece. At once iridescent, lyrical, mystical and magnetic."—Bloomsbury Review

      Nedra 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.

      Seductive, witty, and elegantly nuanced, Light Years is a classic novel of an entire generation that discovered the limits of its own happiness—and then felt compelled to destroy it.

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      Jun 1977 Avon ISBN13 9780380016440 ISBN10 0380016443
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      Jun 1983 North Point Press ISBN13 9780865470644 ISBN10 0865470642
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      Feb 1995 Vintage ISBN13 9780679740735 ISBN10 0679740732
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      Mar 2007 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780141188638 ISBN10 0141188634
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      First Edition Jan 1977 Ebury Publishing (UK) ISBN13 9780370106069 ISBN10 0370106067
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      Jan 1975 Random House ISBN13 9780394494333 ISBN10 0394494334
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      Feb 2011 Knopf ISBN13 9780307781727 ISBN10 0307781720
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      Feb 2011 Vintage ISBN10 B004G8PIOA
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      Jan 2014 Audible Studios ISBN10 B00HSUU5R8
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