Salter: 183 books

First published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital—each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literary grace. Two New York attorneys newly flush with...

The lives of officers in an Air Force squadron in occupied Europe encompass the contradictions of military experience and the men's response to a young newcomer, bright and ambitious, whose fate is to be an emblem of their own. In Cassada, Salter captures the strange comradeship of loneliness, trust,...

A personal history of war from bestselling authors John McCain and Mark Salter, told through the stories of thirteen remarkable American soldiers who fought in the nation’s major military conflicts, from the Revolution of 1776 through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a veteran himself,...

'Salter writes with engaging affection, good humour and knowledge. Nobody tells a yachting yarn better' - Sir James Hardy OBE This is a book about the excitement of sailing. The characters, the adventures, the disasters - and the quiet little drink afterwards. No sport generates more anecdotes...

For years, veteran Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Charles Salter roamed the state in his 1975 Chevy station wagon in search of the most offbeat characters to appear in his celebrated column, "The Georgia Rambler." From tall tales of the Okefenokee Swamp, to treasure hunters of Duluth and ex-moonshiners...

Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion–by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. These ten powerful stories portray men and women in their most intimate moments. A lover of poetry is asked by his wife to give up what may be his most...

The acclaimed debut novel, a classic of war literature, by one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. In this “darkly romantic . . . beautifully composed . . . brilliant war novel” (Chicago Tribune) by “the contemporary writer most admired and envied by other writers”...

A comprehensive survey of ghosts and apparitions from the records of the Society for Psychical Research. Ghosts and Apparitions is a classic in the field of paranormal research, written by a former president of the Society for Psychical Research, W.H. Salter. The author of Zoar, or the Evidence...

Mary Jo Salter’s sparkling new collection, Open Shutters, leads us into a world where things are often not what they seem. In the first poem, “Trompe l’Oeil,” the shadow-casting shutters on Genoese houses are made of paint only, an “open lie.” And yet “Who needs to be correct / more...

De jaren zestig. Phillip Dean, gestopt met zijn studie aan Yale, reist door Frankrijk in een geleende auto. Als hij voor korte tijd verblijft in een plattelandsdorpje, begint hij een opwindende verhouding met de achttienjarige Franse Anne-Marie. Na het verschijnen van Spel en tijdverdrijf werd James...

In Dwars door de dagen beschrijft James Salter op fijnzinnige en lyrische wijze zijn leven, dat na een jeugd in Manhattan door twee hemelsbreed verschillende carrières bepaald is: die van gevechtspiloot bij de Amerikaanse luchtmacht en die van schrijver. Na zijn studie ging Salter het leger in; hij...

The English Renaissance is frequently defined in the context of the Elizabethans and early-Stuarts, but here we focus on the early Renaissance, and the important cultural transitions of the late-medieval/early-Tudor period. In this innovative study, Elisabeth Salter reconstructs the lives and experiences...

What motivates sexual abusers? Why are so few caught? Drawing on the stories of abusers, Anna C. Salter shows that sexual predators use sophisticated deception techniques and rely on misconceptions surrounding them to evade discovery. Arguing that even the most knowledgeable among us can be fooled,...

The first short story of the Calnis Chronicles of the Tarimain The only thing worse than dying is never having it as an option. The Tarimain, the immortal soldiers of God, tasked with fighting on the front lines of the eternal war, uncover a dark demonic plot to raise an army. Atharron,...