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All That Is: A Novel (Vintage International)

by James Salter

Published: 2014-01-28
Paperback : 368 pages

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Pub Date: 2014-01-28 Pages: 35 Language: English Publisher: Vintage Books NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Book Review Notable Book An NPR Great Reads Book All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change Philip. Bowman returns to America from the battlefields of Okinawa and finds success in the competetive world of publishing in postwar New York - yet what he most desires. and what eludes him. is love Here is PENFaulkner winner James Salters dazzling. sometimes devastating portrait of. love and ambition. a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures of being alive.

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"All That Is"by Paula J. (see profile) 01/27/16

Spilt decision on this book by our group. Some
found the episodic structure hard to follow, and the
main character is not interesting. Others loved
Salter's sentence structure, and the

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"The book seemed to be about the sexual escapades of the main character and little else."by Gail R. (see profile) 10/05/14

There are some books that you take to immediately, some books that grow on you and some books that simply never go anywhere for you. This was one of them for me. It was well written, and for... (read more)

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