Solo Faces: James Salter (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Salter, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141189584 ISBN 13: 9780141189581

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

Solo Faces

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Review:

""Solo Faces" contrasts a devotion to mountain climbing with the earthbound tugs of love and ordinary life . . . A beautifully composed book that will remind readers of Camus and Saint-Exupery. It exemplifies the purity it describes."--Michael Dirda, "The Washington Post" "[Salter is in] the great modern tradition of Conrad and Hemingway and Malraux."--Samuel Hynes, "The New York Times Book Review" """A terrific novel--compelling, sad, wise, and kindhearted. Mr. Salter's prose is rare and stunning . . . How energizing it is to read a novel with a real hero in it--and a real hero he is.--John Irving

Synopsis:

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 where it leads. Rand, not intending it, becomes suddenly famous for a daring rescue in the Alps. What happens when passion is spent and what becomes of heroes is revealed in this terse and powerfully written novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0141189584
• ISBN 13: 9780141189581
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240