Eric Weinberger

All That Is, by James Salter- review

  • All That Is

    James Salter

    Picador, pp. 304

  • Collected Stories

    James Salter

    Picador, pp. 320

Some authors’ lives are a great deal more interesting than others — James Salter’s, for one. Born in 1925 and educated at West Point, a fighter pilot in Korea and afterwards in Cold War Europe, the chiselled flyboy soon jettisoned this for writing and became a cosmopolitan and a worldly adventurer.

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