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Read [James Salter Book] * The Hunters: A Novel Online ^ PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. The Hunters: A Novel Other pilots question his guts. Four decades later, it is clear that he also fashioned the most enduring fiction ever about aerial warfare.Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal: to become an ace, one of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. Cleve comes to question himself. With his stirring, rapturous first novel--originally published in 1956 --James Salter established himself as the most electrifying prose stylist since Hemingway. But as his fellow a
| Title | : | The Hunters: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.74 (655 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375703926 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 233 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-24 |
| Language | : | English |
Eric Maroney said Read This First. The Hunters is James Salter’s first novel. Based on his experience as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, it starts off conventionally, and slowly. If you have read other Salter works, there are moments of the brilliance that is to come; flashes of the later writer.So, although this work is by no means exceptional, this largely rests with my view of what Salter would later accomplish in works like Light Years and A Sport and a Past Time. The Hunters reads like a war novel largely written for an adaptation to the big screen (and it was made into a movie).If you want to read Salter. T.M. Reader said A gem.. This book had been sitting on my shelf a while and may have gone unread forever, but I checked the Amazon reviews and found it to have received only praise all across the board. Well, I just finished reading the book, and can now add my own commendation. The simple name and the comic-book-like jet fighter cover art (on my A gem. T.M. Reader This book had been sitting on my shelf a while and may have gone unread forever, but I checked the Amazon reviews and found it to have received only praise all across the board. Well, I just finished reading the book, and can now add my own commendation. The simple name and the comic-book-like jet fighter cover art (on my 48 year old copy) would lead one to believe this is a crude shoot 'em up Korean War adventure yarn rather than a fine piece of literature. I found it to be fine literature. All the more remarkable due to the story being imbedded in the environment of jet fighter warf. 8 year old copy) would lead one to believe this is a crude shoot 'em up Korean War adventure yarn rather than a fine piece of literature. I found it to be fine literature. All the more remarkable due to the story being imbedded in the environment of jet fighter warf. Ugly War, Beautiful Writing James Salter was a writer's writer which makes him a reader's writer twice over. A friend who flew jets in Korea said the book is spot on.
Other pilots question his guts. Four decades later, it is clear that he also fashioned the most enduring fiction ever about aerial warfare.Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal: to become an ace, one of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. Cleve comes to question himself. With his stirring, rapturous first novel--originally published in 1956 --James Salter established himself as the most electrifying prose stylist since Hemingway. But as his fellow airmen rack up kill after kill--sometimes under dubious circumstances--Cleve's luck runs bad. And then in one icy instant 40,000 feet above the Yalu River, his luck changes forever. Filled with courage and despair, eerie beauty and corrosive rivalry, The Hunters is a landmark in the literature of war.
From Library Journal Salter's 1956 fighter pilot novel stands out as a literary endeavor in a genre dominated by cheap adventure yarns. . Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Cleve Connell, whose intentions of becoming an ace are thwarted by enemy pilots with plans of their own. Salter goes beyond the usual gung-ho fighter jock glitz to present the story of Capt
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