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Light Years by James Salter (1995, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679740732
ISBN-139780679740735
eBay Product ID (ePID)728478
Product Key Features
Book TitleLight Years
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Family Life, Literary
Publication Year1995
GenreFiction
AuthorJames Salter
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.6 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Extraordinary . . . at once tender, exultant, unabashedly sexual, sensual, and profoundly sad. Light Years is a masterpiece." -Elizabeth Benedict, Philadelphia Inquirer "Remarkable. . . . Salter celebrates the silver-and-golden bitterness of life. Light Years . . . becomes an unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by time." -James Wolcott, Esquire "[A] twentieth-century masterpiece. At once iridescent, lyrical, mystical and magnetic." - Bloomsbury Review "An absolutely beautiful, monstrous, important book." -Joy Williams, "Extraordinary . . . at once tender, exultant, unabashedly sexual, sensual, and profoundly sad. Light Years is a masterpiece." --Elizabeth Benedict, Philadelphia Inquirer "Remarkable. . . . Salter celebrates the silver-and-golden bitterness of life. Light Years . . . becomes an unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by time." --James Wolcott, Esquire "[A] twentieth-century masterpiece. At once iridescent, lyrical, mystical and magnetic." -- Bloomsbury Review "An absolutely beautiful, monstrous, important book." --Joy Williams, "Extraordinary . . . at once tender, exultant, unabashedly sexual, sensual, and profoundly sad. Light Years is a masterpiece." --Elizabeth Benedict, Philadelphia Inquirer "Remarkable. . . . Salter celebrates the silver-and-golden bitterness of life. Light Years . . . becomes an unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by time." --James Wolcott, Esquire "[A] twentieth-century masterpiece. At once iridescent, lyrical, mystical and magnetic." -- Bloomsbury Review "An absolutely beautiful, monstrous, important book." --Joy Williams " Light Years is a novel of almost holy radiance to me. It is great in every sense of the word: vast, and timeless, and enduring." --Lauren Groff "For over half my life, I have returned repeatedly to Light Years .... As a writer, I am shamelessly in its debt." --Jhumpa Lahiri, The Paris Review "Light Years , for its relative compactness, is, like all great works of fiction, no easy novel to sum up, so nuanced is its view of human beings, so rich and varied its fictive effects, so large its intention." --Richard Ford, from his Introduction "Every time I read [James Salter's] work I feel a kindred spirit there and am convinced all over again that the way we write a sentence can be everything: exploration, devotion, celebration." --George Saunders, The Southampton Review
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
SynopsisThis exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered 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 even as he lingers over the surface of their marriage, Salter lets us see the fine cracks that are spreading through it, flaws that will eventually mar the lovely picture beyond repair. Seductive, witty, and elegantly nuanced, Light Years is a classic novel of an entire generation that discovered the limits of its own happiness--and then felt compelled to destroy it., A brilliant portrait of a marriage from the PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and author of A Sport and a Pastime , with an introduction by Richard Ford. " Light Years is a novel of almost holy radiance to me. It is great in every sense of the word: vast, and timeless, and enduring."--Lauren Groff, bestselling author of Fates and Furies "Remarkable. An unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by time."--James Wolcott, Esquire "[A] twentieth-century masterpiece. At once iridescent, lyrical, mystical and magnetic."-- Bloomsbury Review Nedra and Viri's favored life revolves around delightful dinners, imaginative games with their children, enviable friends, and idyllic days spent skating on a frozen river or basking in the sun on the beach. But even as Salter lingers over the surface of their marriage, he lets us see the fine cracks that are spreading through it, flaws that will eventually mar the lovely picture beyond repair. Seductive, witty, and elegantly nuanced, Light Years is a classic novel of an entire generation that discovered the limits of its own happiness--and then felt compelled to destroy it.
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- 08 Jun, 2021
Not since Tender is the Night
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.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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