The Hunters - Couverture rigide

Salter, James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1887178368 ISBN 13 : 9781887178365

Editeur : Counterpoint, 1971

Synopsis

Book by Salter James

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

With his stirring, rapturous first novel--originally published in 1956 --James Salter established himself as the most electrifying prose stylist since Hemingway. Four decades later, it is clear that he also fashioned the most enduring fiction ever about aerial warfare.

Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal: to become an ace, one of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. But as his fellow airmen rack up kill after kill--sometimes under dubious circumstances--Cleve's luck runs bad. Other pilots question his guts. Cleve comes to question himself. And then in one icy instant 40,000 feet above the Yalu River, his luck changes forever. Filled with courage and despair, eerie beauty and corrosive rivalry, The Hunters is a landmark in the literature of war.

Biographie de l'auteur

James Salter authored numerous books, including the novels All That Is, 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; the collections Dusk and Other Stories, which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award, and Last Night, which won the Rea Award for the Short Story and the PEN/Malamud Award; and Life Is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days, written with his wife, Kay Salter. He died in 2015.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Counterpoint
• Date d'édition: 1971
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1887178368
• ISBN 13: 9781887178365
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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