James Salter (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Dusk and Other Stories (1988) is a collection of short stories, many of which were published earlier in such journals as The Paris Review.
Achievements
James Salter is a novelist who has never reached a large or wide audience for his delicately plotted and precisely written novels, although he has received much critical praise. The most noticeable aspect of his novels is a search for an Edenic world or a perfect moment. His protagonists fail to achieve or sustain that moment, but they prove themselves worthy of the quest. Also...
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