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 restrained by conventions and flat ground. Unable to find happiness in his life, he travels to southern France to climb to the summits of the Alps. He finds peace and happiness within himself soon after. But when fellow climbers are trapped on the mountain, he makes a daring one-man rescue during a storm that brings him the notice he has always shunned. But the glory quickly dissapates and he returns to the anonymity he prefers, having thoroughly satisfied himself.

Solo Faces

Literature & Fiction

SALTER, James

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

The growth and demise of a love affair is chronicled in Salter's portrait of the relationship between a young Yale dropout and the provincial French girl who becomes his mistress

A Sport and a Pastime

United States

In a small French town in the 1950s, a Yale dropout has an affair with a pretty local shop girl, imagined in every erotic detail by a solitary compatriot. James Salter is the author of "The Hunters", "The Arm of Flesh", "Burning the Days", "Light Years", "Solo Faces" and "'Dusk' and Other Stories".

British & Irish

JONATHAN CAPE.

The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other novelist has since, the scope, confusion, and complexity of war.

The Young Lions

SHAW, Irwin

Genre Fiction

University of Chicago Press

From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author James Salter and his wife, Kay—amateur chefs and perfect hosts—here is a charming, beautifully illustrated tour de table: a food lover's companion that, with an entry for each day of the year, takes us from a Twelfth Night cake in January to a champagne dinner on New Year's Eve. Life Is Meals is rich with culinary wisdom, history, recipes, literary pleasures, and the authors' own memories of successes and catastrophes.For instance: • The menu on the Titanic on the fatal night• Reflections on dining from Queen Victoria, JFK, Winnie-the-Pooh, Garrison Keillor, and many others• The seductiveness of a velvety Brie or the perfect martini• How to decide whom to invite to a dinner party—and whom not to• John Irving's family recipe for meatballs; Balzac's love of coffee• The greatest dinner ever given at the White House• Where in Paris Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter had French onion soup at 4:00 a.m.• How to cope with acts of God and man-made disasters in the kitchenSophisticated as well as practical, opinionated, and indispensable, Life Is Meals is a tribute to the glory of food and drink, and the joy of sharing them with others. "The meal is the emblem of civilization," the Salters observe. "What would one know of life as it should be lived, or nights as they should be spent, apart from meals?"

Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Salter, Kay

Cooking Education & Reference

KNOPF

For people who want to record their eating adventures and to store keepsakes from their memorable meals, this journal is peppered with eclectic passages from the literary gourmets James and Kay Salter.     A perfect gift for anyone who loves to eat, this journal is beautifully designed for creating a keepsake around life's greatest pleasure: food. Inspired by the bestselling book Life Is Meals, this journal provides plenty of space to record memories of delicious meals (whether they are enjoyed at restaurants, at dinner parties, or simply at home). The journal features heavy, album-bound pages so that it can accommodate dining memorabilia like matchbook covers, menus, labels, and other ephemera. Charming information about origins of everyday foods and table items and their famous circumstances are also sprinkled throughout.

Life Is Meals Journal: An Album for Epicures

Entertaining & Holidays

Potter Style

Rand lives free; lean, pure and defiant, the world has little influence on him. His passion is climbing - the mountains, the huge vertical faces. There, where storms, snow, or rockfall can kill, he finds his happiness, sometimes climbing with others, sometimes alone. This is a novel of obsession and where it leads. Rand, not intending it, becomes suddenly famous for a daring rescue in the Alps. What happens when passion is spent and what becomes of heroes is revealed in this terse and powerfully written novel.

Biographies & Memoirs

Little,Brown

Light Years

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

"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 Salter's A Sport and a Pastime is the intensely carnal story―part shocking reality, part feverish dream ―of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a young French girl. There is the seen and the unseen―and pages that burn with a rare intensity.

A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

In this brilliant book of recollection, one of America's finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some fifty years, bringing to life an entire era through one man's sensibility. Scenes of love and desire, friendship, ambition, life in foreign cities and New York, are unforgettably rendered here in the unique style for which James Salter is widely admired. Burning the Days captures a singular life, beginning with a Manhattan boyhood and then, satisfying his father's wishes, graduation from West Point, followed by service in the Air Force as a pilot. In some of the most evocative pages ever written about flying, Salter describes the exhilaration and terror of combat as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, scenes that are balanced by haunting pages of love and a young man's passion for women. After resigning from the Air Force, Salter begins a second life, becoming a writer in the New York of the 1960s. Soon films beckon. There are vivid portraits of actors, directors, and producers--Polanski, Robert Redford, and others. Here also, more important, are writers who were influential, some by their character, like Irwin Shaw, others because of their taste and knowledge. Ultimately Burning the Days is an illumination of what it is to be a man, and what it means to become a writer. Only once in a long while--Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory or Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa--does a memoir of such extraordinary clarity and power appear. Unconventional in form, Burning the Days is a stunning achievement by the writer The Washington Post Book World said "inhabits the same rarefied heights as Flannery O'Connor, Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams and John Cheever" --a rare and unforgettable book.

Burning the Days: Recollection

Arts & Literature

Random House]

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Solo Faces

A Sport and a Pastime

A Sport and a Pastime

The Young Lions

Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days

Life Is Meals Journal: An Album for Epicures

Solo Faces

Light Years

A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)

Burning the Days: Recollection