Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps - Hardcover

Salter, James; Phelps, Robert; McIntyre, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582436053 ISBN 13: 9781582436050

Publisher: Counterpoint, 2010

Synopsis

James Salter had written two novels, The Hunters and The Arm of Flesh, but it was his third, remarkable novel A Sport and a Pastime, together with his film Three and a script he had written for Downhill Racer, that in 1969 elicited a letter of admiration from a writer and critic he did not know—Robert Phelps. The correspondence that resulted went on to span two decades. The letters themselves are exceptionally alive, uninhibited, gossipy, touching, and brilliant. The successes of Salter and the struggles of Phelps are fully explored by the writers themselves in an honest exchange only letters can divulge. Along with an insightful foreword by Michael Dirda, this book gives voice to a nearly forgotten figure and his friendship with a man he admired.

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Praise for James Salter

"Salter particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure." --Susan Sontag

"Sentence for sentence Salter is the master." --Richard Ford

"Salter inhabits the same rarefied heights as Flannery O'Connor, Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams, and John Cheever." --The Washington Post Book World

Edition details

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1582436053
• ISBN 13: 9781582436050
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224