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| Original Title: | Light Years |
| ISBN: | 0679740732 (ISBN13: 9780679740735) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Vladimir Berland, Nedra, Ève Caunt, Franca, Danny |
| Setting: | New York State(United States) |
James Salter
Paperback | Pages: 308 pages Rating: 4.03 | 4931 Users | 681 Reviews
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This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends, and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach. But even as he lingers over the surface of their marriage, Salter lets us see the fine cracks that are spreading through it, flaws that will eventually mar the lovely picture beyond repair. Seductive, witty, and elegantly nuanced, Light Years is a classic novel of an entire generation that discovered the limits of its own happiness—and then felt compelled to destroy it.
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| Title | : | Light Years |
| Author | : | James Salter |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 308 pages |
| Published | : | January 31st 1995 by Vintage (first published 1975) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literary Fiction. Novels. Literature. American |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 4931 Users | 681 ReviewsCriticize Based On Books Light Years
Hmm. I admired this more than I liked it. It's one of the most generic stories ever told, really, about the dissolution of the privileged lives of family and friends. Westchester County. The Hamptons. European travel. Educated, urbane conversation. Too much knowledge of good wine. Hot, intelligent children. "Luminous" prose, yea, but it seemed too often mannered for me. The syntax is consistent, two phrases separated by a comma, the second phrase deepening the resonance, often with an unexpectedThere are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is the other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see. And here I am once more, mesmerized and hypnotized by the writing of another mid-last-century American male writer. A writer who tells about "the other" kind of life, the hidden one, with cutting, unsentimental strokes - each stroke confirming the doom of convention, of marriage, of life.It's the story of
A very beautifully written portrait of an adulterous marriage, adulterous on both sides. It's a novel essentially made up of vignettes, snapshots, defining moments. There's little dramatic tension but it's a tremendously wise and philosophical and poetical novel. What I would say is that Salter is more convincing writing from the male perspective than the female. His heroine, Nedra, seemed a little idealised. As if we only see her through the besotted eyes of her husband. It's not entirely clear
ah, what a beautiful review Cecily! your description of what the book is really about fits exactly the kind of book I'm looking for. thank you for
There is nothing light about this book. Paradoxically, not even the in the title.I am blown away. I am devastated.I wasnt prepared for Salter, and in spite of knowing the plot and having read many of my GR friends reviews, I wasnt ready to read this novel. A book that looks the reader in the eye and questions everything we consider essential, the things we build our lives around, the grandiloquent words we use freely without really knowing the extent of their transient meanings: youth, marriage,
I could list quite a few little details in this book of things that are missing or that don't add up, things that might annoy me....... but none of them do! "How does she earn her living? How does she have money for that?" fleeted through my head on several occasions! They are just not all that important! She did somehow, and I am satisfied with that. I really, really liked the book! It moved me. At the end I had tears in my eyes. Why is this? It is because the words create a mood, a feel of a
what do we really know of all this?This Salter belongs to the genre of "stump in the stomach"-novels, because he mercilessly confronts you with the emptiness, the deficit, and the decay of existence, of life. It are feelings we all have in the course of our lives, and thus very recognizable. And the remarkable thing is that the author does not really do much to hand out the blow. His style is not spectacular at all, on the contrary, Salter usually writes in very short sentences, sometimes just a
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