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Salter, James.
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Salter, James.
Fiction -- Authorship.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
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Salter, James.
Salter, James.
Fiction -- Authorship.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
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The
art
of
fiction
/ James Salter.
by
Salter, James.
University of Virginia Press, 2016.
Call #:
808.3 S177a
Subjects
Salter, James.
Fiction
-- Authorship.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Series
Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Lectures.
ISBN:
9780813939056 (hc.)
Description:
xxxvii, 77 pages ; 19 cm.
Contents:
Introduction / by John Casey -- The
art
of
fiction
-- Writing novels -- Life into
art
.
Summary:
"James Salter's exalted place in American letters is based largely on the intense admiration of other writers, but his work resonates far beyond the realm of fellow craftsmen, addressing themes -- youth, war, erotic love, marriage, life abroad, friendship -- that speak to us all. Following the publication of his first novel, Salter left behind a military career of great promise to write full-time and -- through decades of searching, exacting work -- became one of American literature's master stylists. Only months before he died, at the age of eighty-nine, he agreed to serve as the first Kapnick Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia, where he composed and delivered the three lectures presented in this book. Salter speaks to us here with an easy intimacy, sharing his unceasing enchantment with the books that made up his reading life, including works by Balzac, Flaubert, Babel, Dreiser, Céline, and Faulkner. These talks offer a candid look at the writing life -- the rejection letters, negative reviews, and writing in the morning or at night and worrying about money during the long afternoons. Salter raises the question, Why does one write? For wealth? For admiration, or a sense of "importance"? Confronting a blank sheet that always offers too many choices, practicing a vocation that often demands one write instead of live, the answer for Salter was creating a style that captured experience, in a world where anything not written down fades away"--Provided by publisher.
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