Burning the Days (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James Hororwitz
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1925-1997
- Setting: New York City, West Point, Honolulu, South Korea, Munich, Paris, and Hollywood
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, France or French people, Authors or writers, New York City, World War II, Paris, Flight, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Airplanes or jets
- Locales: New York, NY, Paris, France, Hollywood, CA, Munich, Germany, South Korea, Honolulu, HI, West Point, CT
In an era rife with memoirs and autobiographies, James Salter’s Burning the Days stands out for its elegance, sensuality, and style. Although described, on the title page, as “Recollection,” the book is as carefully shaped as any piece of recent fiction. It evokes, in its precision and in the sensibility that informs every page, not so much a personal life as a way of approaching life and a way of describing experience that characterizes an era of literary style and apprehension long since gone.
Salter, the author of six works of fiction published over a writing life...
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