James Salter's Strange Career

On September 7,1997, when Salter had been writing for forty years, Samuel Hynes observed in the New York Times Book Review that "his reputation is of a curious kind; no single book of his has a secure place in the canon of modem fiction. In his eighties he published ten books in thirteen years....

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