Octavo, 365pages, pale boards, translucent printed dj Memoirs compared to Nabakov's SPEAK MEMORY and Dinesen's OUT OF AFRICA. Blurbed by Joseph Heller, Susan Sontag, Richard Ford, Michael Ondaatje. Salter graduated from West Point, and was a pilot in the Air Force in Korea. He writes vividly of the exhiliaration and terror of combat as a fighter pilot. Later he became a writer in New York in the Sixties. "Ultimately BURNING THE DAYS is an illumination of what it is to be a man, and what it means to become a writer.".

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Title

Burning the Days : Recollection

Publisher

Random House, New York

Publication Date

1997

Language

English

ISBN 10

0375500154

ISBN 13

9780375500152

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First edition.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

fine

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The author of A Sport and a Pastime offers a vivid, unconventional memoir spanning more than fifty years, from his Manhattan youth and West Point education to his career as a combat pilot and the glamorous, international world of the writer. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

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James Salter is the author of A Sport and a Pastime (now in Modern Library), Light Years, The Hunters, Solo Faces, and Dusk and Other Stories, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988. He lives in Colorado and Long Island.

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