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Last Night by James Salter
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In ten exquisite stories, Salter portrays men and women in their most intimate moments. The title piece, in which a translator assists agonizingly in his wife's suicide even as he performs a last betrayal, has already been hailed 'a masterpiece, clearly and without question'. 'Breathtaking ...Salter's s ...Show more
Last Night: Stories by James Salter
$49.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In ten powerful stories, Salter portrays men and women in their most intimate moments. A book dealer faces the truth about his life as it is and never will be again when he is visited unexpectedly by his brash former girlfriend. A lonely married woman, after a disturbing encounter with a drunken poet at ...Show more
Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days by James Salter; Kay Salter
$34.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
From the award-winning author James Salter and his wife, Kay - amateur chefs and terrific hosts - here is a lively, beautifully illustrated food lover's companion. With an entry for each day of the year, Life Is Meals takes us from a Twelfth Night cake in January to a champagne dinner on New Year's Eve. ...Show more
Light Years by James Salter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Negra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach. But fine cracks are beginning to spread through the shimmering surface of their life - ...Show more
Solo Faces by James Salter
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Rand lives free; lean, pure and defiant, the world has little influence on him. His passion is climbing - the mountains, the huge vertical faces. There, where storms, snow, or rockfall can kill, he finds his happiness, sometimes climbing with others, sometimes alone. This is a novel of obsession and whe ...Show more
THERE AND THEN by SALTER JAMES
$43.95 AUD
Category: Travel
This collection offers two dozen essays and sketches about one of the passions of Salter's life, travel, a subject beloved by writers across the centuries. Over twenty years of skiing, hiking, climbing from Colorado to Japan to the Tyrol, from Austria and Switzerland to Germany and France, Salter is an ...Show more
The Hunters by James Salter
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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 ...Show more
There and Then - The Travel Writing of James Salter by James Salter
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel
This collection offers two dozen essays and sketches about one of the passions of Salter's life, travel, a subject beloved by writers across the centuries. Over twenty years of skiing, hiking, climbing - from Colorado to Japan to the Tyrol, from Austria and Switzerland to Germany and France, Salter is a ...Show more