Light Years

Nedra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners ingenious games with their children enviable friends and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach. But fine cracks are beginning to spread through the shimmering surface of their life - flaws that will eventually mar the lovely picture beyond repair. Seductive witty tender and resonantLight Years is an exquisite novel of lost lives and the elusiveness of happiness. About the Author James Salter is the author of the novelsSolo Faces Light Years A Sport and a Pastime The Arm of Flesh (revised asCassada) andThe Hunters; the memoirsGods of Tin andBurning the Days; and the collectionDusk and Other Stories which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives in Colorado and on Long Island.