Last Night, Paperback/James Salter

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Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion-by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. These ten powerful stories portray men and women in their most intimate moments. A lover of poetry is asked by his wife to give up what may be his most treasured relationship. A book dealer is forced to face the truth about his life. And in the title story, a translator assists his wife's suicide, even as he performs a last act of betrayal. James Salter's assured style and emotional insight make him one of our most essential writers About the Author: 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.Julia Blackburn is the author of several other works of nonfiction, including Charles Waterton and The Emperor's Last Island , and of two novels, The Book of Color and The Leper's Companions , both of which were short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her most recent book, Old Man Goya , was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Blackburn lives in England and Italy.