PICADOR SHOTS - 'My Lord You' - Softcover

Salter, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330445804 ISBN 13: 9780330445801

Publisher: Picador, 2006

Synopsis

In June, 2006, Picador launch Picador Shots, a new series of pocket-sized books priced at £1. The Shots aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately disposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine.

In these two stories, James Salter portrays men and women in their most intimate moments. In 'My Lord You' a lonely married woman, after a disturbing encounter with a drunken poet at a dinner party, finds herself irresistibly drawn to his animal surrogate, a huge tawny-eyed dog. In 'Last Night', an ageing but successful business men meets up with a woman he has loved and lost twenty years later only to find himself reacting in a way he would never have imagined...

'Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as yet unpublished books I wait for impatiently' Susan Sontag

'Salter's prose is rare and stunning' John Irving

'James Salter is the contemporary writer most admired and envied by other writers . . . He can, when he wants, break your heart with a sentence' Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

About this title

From the Back Cover:

'My Lord You'

A lonely, married woman. A disturbing encounter with a drunken poet at a dinner party. Why, afterwards, is she so irresistibly drawn it his animal surrogate, a huge, tawny-eyed dog?

'Palm Court'

One ageing but successful businessman. One woman he has loved and lost twenty years before. How will he react when they arrange to meet at the Palm Court Hotel after all that time?

About the Author:

James Salter is the author of the novels Solo Faces, Light Years, A Sport and a Pastime, The Arm of Flesh (revised as Cassada), and The Hunters; the memoirs Gods of Tin and Burning the Days; and a collection of short stories, Dusk and Other Stories, which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives in Colorado and on Long Island.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0330445804
• ISBN 13: 9780330445801
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64