Cassada
  • Published: 21 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781619020559
  • Imprint: Catapult
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $34.99

Cassada

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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 contradictions of military experience and the men's response to a young newcomer, bright and ambitious, whose fate is to be an emblem of their own.

After futile attempts at ordinary revision, Salter elected to begin with a blank page, to compose an entirely new novel based upon the characters and events of his second long unavailable novel, The Arm of Flesh. The result, Cassada, is a masterpiece.
  • Published: 21 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781619020559
  • Imprint: Catapult
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

James Salter

Date: 2003-03-03
JAMES SALTER was born in 1926 and grew up in New York City. He graduated from West Point in 1945 and began a twelve-year stint in the U. S. Air Force, much of it as a fighter pilot. It was while assigned to air squadrons in Europe that he began writing. Following the publication of his first novel in 1956, Salter resigned from the armed forces. With the publication of his second novel in 1961, his reputation as an author was established.

James Salter is the author of the novels Solo Faces, Light Years, A Sport and a Pastime, The Arm of Flesh (revised as Cassada), and The Hunters; the memoirs Gods of Tin and Burning the Days; and the collection, Dusk and Other Stories which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives in Colorado and on Long Island.

 

 

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