Burning the Days Recollection
Burning the Days Recollection by James Salter is a memoir published by Picador in 2007, featuring 387 pages in English. This work chronicles Salter’s journey from Manhattan to his experiences in the skies over Korea, ultimately leading to his emergence as a notable American author in the vibrant literary scene of 1960s New York.
Readers will find a rich narrative that highlights Salter’s distinctive writing style, particularly in his reflections on flying and the influential figures in his life, including actors, directors, and authors. The memoir delves into themes of passion and ambition, exploring what it means to live fully and to engage in the craft of writing.
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‘The true chronicler of my life, a tall, soft-looking man with watery eyes, came up to me at the gathering and said, as if he had been waiting a long time to tell me, that he knew everything. I had never seen him before.’
This is the brilliant memoir of a man who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before emerging as one of America’s finest authors in the New York of the 1960s.
Burning the Days showcases Salter’s uniquely beautiful style with some of the most evocative pages about flying ever written, together with portraits of the actors, directors and authors who later influenced him. It is an unforgettable book about passion, ambition and what it means to live and to write.
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