James Salter

First time in Modern Classics and for Penguin to publish one of the great American writers of the last 50 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...

'One of the finest American writers of his mighty generation' - Esquire 'A tour de force of erotic realism, a romantic cliffhanger' - The New York Times The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes Paris in a borrowed, once elegant car. He begins a mismatched affair with a young shop girl named Anne-Marie....