Gods of Tin
The Flying Years
by James Salter
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"A singular life often circles around a singular moment, an occasion when one's life in the world is defined forever and the emotional vocabulary is set. For James Salter, that moment was found in the skies over Korea." "A riveting combination of fiction, journals, and memoir, Gods of Tin is Salter's own story. Gathering selections from The Hunters, Cassada, and Burning the Days, it also includes, published here for the first time, selections from a journal Salter kept during the war."--BOOK JACKET.
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Gods of Tin: The Flying Years
November 10, 2005, Shoemaker & Hoard
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August 30, 2004, Shoemaker & Hoard
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"By the summer of 1942, America had been at war with Japan and Germany for more than half a year."
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"By the summer of 1942, America had been at war with Japan and Germany for more than half a year."
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A singular life often circles around a singular moment, an occasion when one's life in the world is defined forever and the emotional vocabulary set. For the extraordinary writer James Salter, this moment was contained in the fighter planes over Korea where, during his young manhood, he flew more than one hundred missions. James Salter is considered one of America's greatest prose stylists. The Arm of Flesh (later revised and retitled Cassada) and his first novel, The Hunters, are legendary in military circles for their descriptions of flying and aerial combat. A former Air Force pilot who flew F-86 fighters in Korea, Salter writes with matchless insight about the terror and exhilaration of the pilot's life.
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