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It is filled with the prose equivalent of montage, wideshots, and jump cuts, as in the scene on pages 6066, in which alternating paragraphs depict jivan dining with the berlands andlater. Salter, at left, in korea in 1952, with other members of the 335th fighter squadron, the inspiration for his first novel, the hunters. James arnold horowitz june 10, 1925 june 19, 2015, better known as james salter, his pen name and lateradopted legal name, was an american novelist and shortstory writer. Light years vintage international kindle edition by. The light years is a prayer for vanished friends, an odyssey signposted with broken and extraordinary people. Conversations with james salter collects interviews published from 1972 to 2014 with the awardwinning author of the hunters, a sport and a pastime, light years, and all that is.
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