I found this book because of a reference in a play I watched at the Goodman Theater Company in Chicago. The play is called The Sound Inside and it was a beautiful work exquisitely directed by Robert Falls (Death of a Salesman - Brian Dennehy The Iceman Cometh Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy ) and in this two fer two novelists debate if the older woman with cancer should take her own life. Well in the course of this discussion they both admit that neither of them is as good as James Salter or write as well as he did in Light Years. Well as an avid reader, especially of American Lit, I was annoyed that I had no idea who this writer is and so I went on Ebay to get Light Years and it is the best read I've had since Tender is the Night and that was decades ago. It is a work of absolute magic. Every phrase raises the stakes and every chapter is genius. If you have not read this book then, as with me, you will be lacking in your understanding of American Lit. Read full review
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