Last Night

A spellbinding collection of stories about passion-by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating.

“Life is a volatile mess, and no one portrays that mess better than James Salter. . . . All of the stories in Last Night are superb.”-The New York Times Book Review

In powerful stories, Salter portrays men and women in their most intimate moments. A book dealer faces the truth about his life-as it is and never will be again-when he is visited unexpectedly by his brash former girlfriend. A lonely married woman, after a disturbing encounter with a drunken poet at a dinner party, finds herself irresistibly drawn to his animal surrogate, a huge tawny-eyed dog. A lover of poetry must come to terms with his wife’s request to give up what may be his most treasured relationship. And in the title story, a translator, tormented by an agonizing sense of inevitability, assists in his wife’s suicide even as he performs a last betrayal.

A haunting symphony of desire, memory, and loss-from a writer whose assured style and emotional insight make him one of literature’s most compelling voices.

Author: James Salter
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/14/2006
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9781400078417
Language: English