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1998, ISBN: 9781860465055
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1998, ISBN: 9781860465055
The Harvill Press, 15/10/1998 00:00:01. paperback. Very Good. 2.5381 in x 19.0355 in x 12.9442 in., The Harvill Press, 15/10/1998 00:00:01, 3
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Harvill Pr. Paperback. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/s… Altro …
ISBN: 1860465056
[EAN: 9781860465055], [PU: Harvill Pr], Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WOR… Altro …
1998
ISBN: 9781860465055
The Harvill Press, 15/10/1998 00:00:01. paperback. Very Good. 2.5381 cent in x 19.0355 cent in x 12.9442 cent in., The Harvill Press, 15/10/1998 00:00:01, 3
1998, ISBN: 9781860465055
The Harvill Press, 15/10/1998 00:00:01. paperback. Very Good. 2.5381 in x 19.0355 in x 12.9442 in., The Harvill Press, 15/10/1998 00:00:01, 3
ISBN: 9781860465055
Paperback. Very Good., 3
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Salter puts the reader on notice from the very beginning that this will be a selective sort of recollection: "If you can think of life, for a moment, as a large house with a nursery, living and dining rooms, bedrooms, study, and so forth, all unfamiliar and bright, the chapters which follow are, in a way, like looking through the windows of this house.... At some windows you may wish to stay longer, but alas. As with any house, all within cannot be seen." What, then, are we privileged to see? Salter's airborne years account for perhaps a third of the book, and for this we should be grateful: no contemporary writer has made the experience more vivid or eerily palpable. There are brilliant evocations of New York, Rome, and Paris, some of which rival the virtuosic scene-painting in the author's A Sport and a Pastime. More to the point, there are human beings, who tend to get semi-apotheosized by the sheer elegance of Salter's prose. ("I do not worship gods but I like to know they are there," he notes in his preface--although his portrait of, say, Irwin Shaw does seem to be propped up on a private altar.)
Salter's lofty romanticism can sometimes turn to gush. These blemishes are far outweighed, however, by the general splendor of the prose, which alternates Proustian extravagance with Hemingway-inspired economy. And even when the book flirts with frivolity, there is always the undertow of loss, of leave-taking. Many of the things that Salter describes are gone. In addition, he claims to have despoiled whatever remains by the very act of writing about it: "To write of someone thoroughly is to destroy them, use them up.... Things are captured and at the same time drained of life, never to shimmer or give back light again." No doubt his assertion has a grain of truth to it, at least for the author himself. But his loss is the reader's gain: most of what Salter has captured in Burning the Days remains alive and, frequently, luminous. --James Marcus
Informazioni dettagliate del libro - Burning the Days (Roman)
EAN (ISBN-13): 9781860465055
ISBN (ISBN-10): 1860465056
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Anno di pubblicazione: 1998
Editore: The Harvill Press
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ISBN/EAN: 1860465056
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Titolo del libro: burning the days, lartigue, day burning
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