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Burning the Days: Recollection

James Salter

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#2868 of 3,809 books · #1029 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (1997).

This is the brilliant memoir of a man who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before emerging as one of America's finest authors in the New York of the 1960s. Burning the Days showcases James Salter's uniquely beautiful style with some of the most evocative pages about flying ever written, together with portraits of the actors, directors and authors who later influenced him. It is an unforgettable book about passion, ambition and what it means to live and to write.

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Publisher
Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13
9781447231349
Topics
Military aviationKorean WarLiterary life

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