Synopsis
This is the brilliant memoir of a man who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before emerging as one of America's finest authors in the New York of the 1960s.
Burning the Days showcases James Salter's uniquely beautiful style with some of the most evocative pages about flying ever written, together with portraits of the actors, directors and authors who later influenced him. It is an unforgettable book about passion, ambition and what it means to live and to write.
Details
28 August 2014
9781447250708Imprint: Picador
Reviews
'A wise and sensual memoir. Salter writes his self-portrait by focusing on what has shaped him, by showing what he has loved and admired and feared to become in others. You cannot put it down' Michael Ondaatje
‘Salter writes wonderfully of a world most of his readers will never have known’ Observer
‘A masterwork of memory, deeply impressive and deeply moving’ Time Out
One of the great literary memoirs . . . there is nothing better in English about what it is like to fly'
