ISBN: 9781447238263    Publisher: Pan Macmillan Year of publishing: 2013     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 304        Language: English

From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. He soon inhabits a world where marriages fail as affairs ignite alcohol reigns writers struggle and publishers hustle. It is a world in which to immerse himself a world of intimate connections and surprising triumphs. But the deal that Philip cannot seem to close is love: one marriage goes bad another fails to happen and finally he meets a woman who enthrals then betrays him setting him on a course he could never have imagined for himself. Written with Salter's signature economy of prose All That Is fiercely fluidly explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change: a dazzling sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition of the small shocks and grand pleasures of being alive. All That Is is a sweeping seductive love story set in post-World War II America that tells of one man's great passions and regrets over the course of his lifetime and draws together the great themes of Salter's writing: warfare love sex and marriage and what it means to write.
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James Salter is the author of the novels Solo Faces Light Years A Sport and a Pastime The Arm of Flesh (revised as Cassada) and The Hunters the memoirs Gods of Tin and Burning the Days and two collections of short stories Dusk and Other Stories (which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award) and Last Night. He lives in Colorado and on Long Island.
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