Burning the Days. Recollection.
New York: Random House, 1997. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In this brilliant book of recollection, one of America's finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some 50 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. Salter describes the exhilaration and terror of combat as a fighter pilot in the Korean War then a second life, as a writer in the 1960s and his life as a screenwriter. 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. 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. Item #29045
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