The Hunters
$32.71
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
22 May 2007
Summary
Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal—to become an ace, one of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. But as his fellow airmen rack up kill after kill—sometimes under dubious circumstances—Cleve’s luck runs bad. Other pilots question his guts. Cleve comes to question himself. And then in one icy instant 40,000 feet above the Yalu River, his luck changes forever. Filled with courage and despair, eerie beauty and corrosive rivalry, James Salter’s lumi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141188645 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141188642 |
| Author: | James Salter |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 22 May 2007 |
| Weight: | 195g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
“The contemporary writer most admired and envied by other writers… . He can … break your heart with a sentence.”
–Washington Post Book World
“Anyone under forty may not appreciate how profoundly Salter influenced my generation. [He] created the finest work ever to appear in print–ever–about men who fly and fight.” –Robert F. Dorr, author of F-86 Sabre
Darkly romantic…beautifully composed…a brilliant war novel.” –Chicago Tribune
About The Author
James Salter
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 the collection, Dusk and Other Stories which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives in Colorado and on Long Island.
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