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James Salter is the author of many novels, including Light Years and The Hunters.
"""""Solo Faces"" contrasts a devotion to mountain climbing with the earthbound tugs of love and ordinary life . . . A beautifully composed book that will remind readers of Camus and Saint-Exupery. It exemplifies the purity it describes.""--Michael Dirda, ""The Washington Post"" ""[Salter is in] the great modern tradition of Conrad and Hemingway and Malraux.""--Samuel Hynes, ""The New York Times Book Review"" """"""A terrific novel--compelling, sad, wise, and kindhearted. Mr. Salter's prose is rare and stunning . . . How energizing it is to read a novel with a real hero in it--and a real hero he is.--John Irving """"Solo Faces contrasts a devotion to mountain climbing with the earthbound tugs of love and ordinary life . . . A beautifully composed book that will remind readers of Camus and Saint-Exupery. It exemplifies the purity it describes.""--Michael Dirda, ""The Washington Post ""[Salter is in] the great modern tradition of Conrad and Hemingway and Malraux.""--Samuel Hynes, ""The New York Times Book Review """"A terrific novel--compelling, sad, wise, and kindhearted. Mr. Salter's prose is rare and stunning . . . How energizing it is to read a novel with a real hero in it--and a real hero he is.--John Irving"
