Dusk and Other Stories

Autori

• James Salter

Parametri

• 157 pagine
• 6 ore di lettura

• Letteratura Americana
• Narrativa
• Narrativa contemporanea
• Racconti

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4 hrs and 50 mins This short-story collection won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award for James Salter, author of Solo Faces and A Sport and A Pastime. Here, Salter's themes are memory and loss, the demands of honor and the inherent betrayals of sexual relations. Salter works like a miniaturist, evoking vast landscapes in a few lines: "Nothing is safe except for an hour," he writes in one beautiful story, opening up a whole world-view. Often, at the end of a story that runs only a few pages, the perspective suddenly broadens, the prose elevates to an abstract lyricism, and the reader is transported. Two New York attorneys newly flush with wealth embark on a dissolute tour of Italy; an ambitious young screenwriter unexpectedly discovers the true meaning of art and glory; a rider, far off in the fields, is involved in an horrific accident - night is falling, and she must face her destiny alone.

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1994

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Condizioni del libro: Danneggiato

Prezzo: 9,85 €