Gods of Tin
  • Published: 10 November 2005
  • ISBN: 9781593760793
  • Imprint: Catapult
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 168
  • RRP: $32.99

Gods of Tin

The Flying Years

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A singular life often circles around a singular moment, an occasion when one's life in the world is defined forever and the emotional vocabulary set. For the extraordinary writer James Salter, this moment was contained in the fighter planes over Korea where, during his young manhood, he flew more than one hundred missions.

James Salter is considered one of America's greatest prose stylists. The Arm of Flesh (later revised and retitled Cassada) and his first novel, The Hunters, are legendary in military circles for their descriptions of flying and aerial combat. A former Air Force pilot who flew F–86 fighters in Korea, Salter writes with matchless insight about the terror and exhilaration of the pilot's life.
  • Published: 10 November 2005
  • ISBN: 9781593760793
  • Imprint: Catapult
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 168
  • RRP: $32.99
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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.

 

 

Also by James Salter

There and Then
Cassada
Memorable Days
Solo Faces
The Hunters
Light Years
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