Last Night | A Critical Analysis of James Salter's Life and Work
In the following essay, Dowie gives a critical analysis of James Salter’s life and work.
James Salter is an artist, living or dying by his style, which is original, spare, and soulful. His work is admired more by his peers than by the public. Saul Bellow, Graham Greene, Mavis Gallant, John Irving, and Reynolds Price, among others, have all praised his work convincingly. Four of his stories are in O. Henry prize collections; one (‘‘Foreign Shores’’) appears in the 1984 Best American Stories anthology; and one story, "Akhnilo," is anthologized in American Short Story Masterpieces (1989), edited by Raymond Carver. Salter received the 1989 P.E.N./ Faulkner...
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