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• Author/Creator:Meyers, Jeffrey, author.
  
• Title:James Salter : pilot, screenwriter, novelist / Jeffrey Meyers.
  
• ISBN:9780807181164
  0807181161
  9780807181683
  9780807181676
  
• Publication:Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2024]
  
• Physical Description:xvii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  

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  • Call Number: PS3569.A4622 Z77 2024 (LC)
    
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• Summary:"Biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers knew the novelist James Salter (1925-2015) during the last decade of his life, visited him twice on Long Island, and received eighty letters from him. Meyers's friendship and knowledge of Salter's life provide many new insights about the personal, cultural, and historical background of his work. This appreciative book, the first full-length study in twenty-six years, is intended to introduce Salter to new readers, and to show his achievement as a writer of novels, stories, screenplays, memoirs, and travel essays. Salter had an extraordinary range of experience as West Point graduate; fighter pilot in the Korean War; downhill skier, rock climber, and mountain climber; screenwriter and film director; connoisseur of food and wine; world traveler and sophisticated observer. Across eleven chapters, Meyers discusses Salter's family and friends; the significance of his book and chapter titles; characters' names and cultural allusions; literary influences, especially Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald; development of his fictional style and techniques; awareness of weather and light; supreme delineation of sexual ecstasy; recurrent themes of war and love; strange career and late recognition. A detailed chronology tracks key dates and events in Salter's life, while a chronological bibliography shows the development of his literary reputation. For Meyers, Salter's lyrical evocation of people and places, of luxurious decadence and the danger of death, are unsurpassed in contemporary literature. This elegant blend of biography, literary criticism, and memoir reveals why"--
  
• Other formats:Online version: Meyers, Jeffrey. James Salter Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2024
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:A restless life -- Fighter pilot and novelist -- The fate of pleasure: A sport and a pastime and light years -- Sophisticated style -- Unicorn in the stable : Hollywood -- Danger and disillusion : Solo faces and Dusk -- Memories and misfortunes : Burning the days and Last night -- Intellectual nourishment : There & then, Life is meals and Don't save anything -- The summa : All that is -- Strange career and late recognition -- Friendship and recollections -- Epilogue: Tributes.
  
• Subjects:Salter, James.
  Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
  American literature--20th century--History and criticism.