A sweeping and seductive love story set in the years after WW2, with an ex-naval officer turned book editor at its centre. From a PEN/Faulkner winner. 'Salter is the contemporary writer most admired and envied by other writers... he can, when he wants, break your heart with a sentence' Michael Dirda, }Washington Post{. Now in paperback A major new novel from the universally acclaimed master and PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter. A sweeping, seductive love story set in the years after World War II.