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All That Is

By: James Salter
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
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From his experiences as a naval officer in Japan during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America and becomes a book editor. He soon inhabits a world where affairs ignite, alcohol reigns, writers struggle, and publishers hustle. As one marriage goes bad and another fails to happen; he meets a woman who enthralls, then betrays him, setting him on a course he could never have imagined for himself.

©2012 James Salter (P)2013 BLACKSTONE AUDIO, INC Fiction Historical Fiction
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"The best novel I’ve read in years. All That Is will be treasured by its readers…Once again he has delivered to us a novel of the highest artistry." (Tim O'Brien)
"Salter is the contemporary writer most admired and envied by other writers…he can, when he wants, break your heart with a sentence" ( Washington Post)
"A beautiful novel, with sufficient love, heartbreak, vengeance, identity, confusion, longing, and euphoria of language to have satisfied Shakespeare" (John Irving)
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love James Salter love his Style but listening to it on Audible , sometimes you have to really concentrate to know who the narrator is talking about; can't just flick back in the book to see where that person came in or, like on Kindle, check out all the references to them.

love the style

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