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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Another summing up…By John P. Jones IIIThis is the third book of James Salter that I have read. I have previously read A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel (FSG Classics) and Burning the Days: Recollection, the latter being his memoirs. The author has lived life to the full, and once again I was impressed with his insights and writing style. This time there seemed to be no negatives that I perceived in the other books. I note some of the other reviewer’s criticisms, for example that it is disjointed, and even pornographic. I found him a shade misogynistic in “A Sport…” but not so in this one. “Age cannot wither, nor custom stale her infinite variety” to quote a bit of Shakespeare, and so too the infinite ways she can say “Yes,” even enthusiastically so, as James Joyce once noted at the close of his masterpiece.The protagonist is Philip Bowman, and the book opens in the Pacific Ocean, towards the end of World War II, as the Americans were preparing to invade Okinawa. Only one chapter is on the war; soon, via a shameless story, he had gained admission to Harvard. Upon graduation, he seeks a job with the Times. He meets with an august “power broker” who is arrogant and dismissive. One has to think that the scene was largely autobiographical, and although a very minor scene, the insult had to rankle all those many years later.He does secure a position with a small but upscale publishing house, and the literary world will be his career, much to the reader’s benefit. Numerous references and stories about literary greats, and this novel has pushed me to finally read Lorca. Serendipity leads to a marriage with a young woman from horse country, which the reader learns was originally established by the Mellon’s. Part of the legacy he has married into is an alcoholic mother-in-law and a stern, philandering father-in-law that has tastes for women half his age. It is a scathing portrait of an incestuous in-grown society, with a “do not talk” code of conduct.A doomed marriage that does not last. At least half the novel is his seeming drift from one semi-permanent female relationship to the next, all of which are quite different. There are several significant minor characters, each also plodding through jobs for economic security as well as their relationships with the other sex. I found the novel rather fast-paced, with some surprising twists and turns. Again, and yet again Salter provides deep insights into motivation and character of a spectrum of people that a younger man – certainly myself – were utterly oblivious too as I was growing up.The author includes a memorable critique of what has occurred in the publishing industry in his lifetime: “The power of the novel in the nation’s culture has weakened. It had happened gradually. It was something everyone recognized and ignored. All went on as before, that was the beauty of it. The glory had faded but fresh faces kept appearing, wanting to be part of it, to be in publishing which had retained a suggestion of elegance like a pair of beautiful, bone-shined shoes owned by a bankrupt man.” 5-stars.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Bittersweet life-story of a fiction editor whose Mom, named Beatrice, warns about the perils of infatuationBy Ethan CooperIn ALL THAT IS, the protagonist, Philip Bowman, is a fiction editor who spends his entire career at Braden and Baum, a small but successful Manhattan publisher with a balanced list of literary fiction, best-sellers, and poetry. While Salter does occasionally show Bowman, a Harvard graduate, reading a manuscript deep into the night or cultivating contacts in the publishing world, the true subject of ATI is Bowman’s personal life, which evolves in exquisite but simple profundity over four decades.In general, this personal life is the young and infatuated Bowman marrying the beautiful, dull, and snobbish Vivian, whose horsey WASP father is reprehensible; the established and divorced Bowman developing a relationship with the attractive and sophisticated London-based Enid before they drift apart; Bowman finding happiness with the seductive divorcee Christine, who shares the quality of sexy duplicity with her rebellious teenage daughter; and Bowman finally finding his soul-mate, who is a cosmopolitan woman who actually reads and enjoys fiction.Of course, at this point, Bowman is no longer young. “He had been weeding in the garden that afternoon and looked down to see, beneath his tennis shorts, a pair of legs that seemed to belong to an older man. He mustn’t, he realized, be going around the house in shorts like this… He had to be careful about such things…”James Salter is beautiful stylist who is a pleasure to read. Here, for example, is Salter inhabiting the sixty-something Bowman, pensive and alone, as his soul-mate is visiting her parents.o “He often thought about death but usually in pity for an animal or fish or seeing the dying grass in the fall or the monarch butterflies clinging to milkweed and feeding for the great funeral flight. Were they aware of it somehow, the strength it would take, the heroic strength? He thought about death, but he had never been able to imagine it, the unbeing while all else still existed. The idea of passing from this world to another, the next, was too fantastic to believe.”o “He wondered then, as he often did, how much of life remained for him. He was certain of only one thing, whatever was to come was the same for everyone who had ever lived. He would be going where they all had gone and—it was difficult to believe—all he had known would go with him, the war… London those first days, the lunch with Christine, her gorgeous body… the great liners with their invincible bodies readying to sail… the first voice he ever knew, his mother’s…”Great, isn’t it?At the same time, Salter includes in ATI two of the most stunningly malevolent, yet fully credible, plot twists ever. Sounds interesting, right? Even so, here I shall only add that one plot twist involves real estate and the other revenge. Editors are people too, I guess.A great book and highly recommended.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. exquisite, powerful, stunningBy John E. DruryJames Salter's "All That Is" recounts the literary life and loves of mild mannered, cultured Philip Bowman, a World War Navy veteran, a well-respected book editor in Manhattan. This is Salter at his best, perhaps his last book,his spare, artfully chosen Hemingway-esque prose achingly beautiful.One comes easily to know and understand Bowman's character, but Salter's stunning cameos of Bowman's friends, contemporaries and six lovers demonstrate characterization rarely seen in modern American fiction. The biting portrait of Bowman’s father-in-law will chill the Middleburg Virginia horsey set. Bowman’s employer’s wife, an incidental character, is superb as he uses her as an entry point to his admiration for a strong female in Manhattan and then delving into the reality that he, Bowman, is not Jewish, “not being one of them, of being an outsider.”The late day ambiance of Harvard Yard glows as Salter fuses light and sound and nostalgia; “[l]ate in the day, the deep resounding bells began, solemn and grand, ringing on and on …finally fading in calm, endless strokes, soft as caresses.” His descriptions of Bowman’s sexual encounters with the various women are explicit - almost erotic - but never pornographic; the anguish of Bowman’s marriage haunts him; leading to betrayals, heartbreaks and one short affair so surprising one gasps at the brutality of its ending; chalk it up to Salter’s elliptical treatment of the male libido heightened by his stunning, superbly paced writing.Near the end, Salter notes that the “power of the novel in the nation’s culture had weakened. It had happened gradually.” This prescience at his age may be correct as the author looks back from his advanced age. Rather, one would hope that his literary output, his elegance in writing - if this is his last book - would influence other talented writers in the future to write like him.But, sadly, there will only be one James Salter.

[MP3CD Audiobook format in Vinyl case] [Read by Joe Barrett] An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master, here is a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II. After his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. It is a time when publishing is still largely a private affair – a scattered family of small houses here and in Europe – a time of gatherings in fabled apartments and conversations that continue long into the night. In this world of dinners, deals, and literary careers, Bowman finds he fits in perfectly. But despite his success, love eludes him. His first marriage goes bad, another fails to happen, and finally he meets a woman who enthralls him and sets him on a course he could never have imagined for himself. Romantic and haunting, All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. It is a dazzling, sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition, a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures of being alive.

.com An Best Book of the Month, April 2013: By starting the life story of Phillip Bowman in the last days of World War II, Salter sets the tone for the rest of this remarkable book. “The outcome of great battles could hinge on resolve,” he writes, and Bowman is all about resolve. But beneath the deceptively straightforward coming-of-age and growing- old narrative--boy meets girl, loses girl; meets, loses; meets, loses--lurks the deeply personal story of what it meant to be a 20th century man. Bowman is the archetype of the flawed, ambitious, lust-filled American male. He’s Don Draper. He’s Rabbit Angstrom. He’s your dad. He’s my dad. (Also named Phil; also from New Jersey.) What’s truly astounding here is the writing, from a master who happens to be an octogenarian. Salter crafts beautiful sentences. He creates characters, lives, entire worlds in just a page or two. He’s also capable of some blushingly evocative sex scenes--again, impressive for a man approaching 90. Profound and lush, this is a book to savor. It’s the sweeping story of a complicated, error-filled, fully wrung-out life. A guy’s life. A good life. --Neal ThompsonFrom BooklistFor decades, Salter has been an artistic standard-bearer. His first novel in many years begins percussively in 1944 with the unrelenting battles in the Pacific. Naval officer Philip Bowman, virginal and close to his mother, makes it safely home, moves to New York, and finds professional contentment as an editor at a small publisher. Even though he falls hard for Vivian, a wealthy southerner, he remains hermetically sealed. Their marriage fizzles quickly, and Bowman is smitten again, but he never gets it right. His obliviousness to women’s inner lives leads to a shocking betrayal, and his crueler revenge. Still, this is a desultory, oddly slippery novel as Salter slides back and forward in time, glides into the lives of other characters, and considers the decline of the novel. The many sex scenes are doleful; the pegs to world events wobbly. Yet resonant passages bloom, including one that captures the book’s subdued spirit: “The landscape was beautiful but passive. The emptiness of things rose like the sound of a choir making the sky bluer and more vast.” --Donna Seaman ''The best novel I've read in years. All That Is will be treasured by its readers. Salter's vivid, lucid prose does exquisite justice to his subject - the relentless struggle to make good on our own humanity. Once again he has delivered to us a novel of the highest artistry.'' --Tim O'Brien, National Book Award-winning author of The Things They Carried ''A beautiful novel, with sufficient love, heartbreak, vengeance, identity confusion, longing, and euphoria of language to have satisfied Shakespeare.'' --John Irving, New York Times bestselling author ''Enthralling . . . A vividly imagined and beautifully written evocation of a postwar world.'' --John Banville, Man Booker Prize-winning author ''This masterpiece is a smooth, absorbing narrative studded with bright particulars. If God is in the details, this book is divine.'' --Edmund White, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author ''A consistently elegant and enjoyable novel, full of verve and wisdom.'' --Julian Barnes, New York Times bestselling author ''[Salter] is a master of the sentence so vivid [that] it stuns. His sweeping new All That Is will refresh the canon of one of America s best living writers.'' --Vogue online ''Salter is one of the most celebrated living American writers, and after a seven-year hiatus he returns with possibly his best work yet.'' --Marie Claire''Highly decorated literary hero James Salter burnishes his reputation with All That Is.'' --Vanity Fair ''A masterpiece . . . a commanding, sensual tour de force . . . I have learned from everything James Salter has written. In [him] I discovered not only an exquisite writer but a manner of living.'' --Departures ''Achingly real . . . the PEN/Faulkner Award-winner's first full-length novel in more than three decades spans forty years and follows the life, career, and loves of book editor Philip Bowman . . . Salter renders the first blushes of Bowman's loves exquisitely - their giddiness, occasional illicitness, eroticism - and his bewilderment after the relationships fail . . . Salter punctuates his elegant prose with sharp, erotic punches.'' -- Publishers Weekly''All That Is [is] the book of 2013 - the book of the year, and I read it twice. It's really brilliant, and very exciting.'' --Maria Semple, Entertainment Weekly ''Salter plunges into the capricious world of book publishing, as WWII vet turned editor Philip Bowman navigates literary parties, author egos, and numerous affairs. Think Mad Men with more tweed . . . The sentence-to-sentence craftsmanship is stunning, and Salter can still write a perfect love scene.'' --Stephan Lee, Entertainment Weekly ''In [Salter's] care, the dust of the mundane is wiped away. Events resonate. Descriptions sparkle. Salter s mastery is such that from the affecting and effective early scenes of protagonist Philip Bowman s experiences off Okinawa during World War II, through all the twists and turns of a life played out in a rapidly changing America, nothing about this book disappoints . . . As absorbing as the brief chapters on war are, the author's scenes of seduction are equally realistic and memorable . . . In this book, he has rubbed words to a high sheen indeed.'' --New York Journal of Books''The best novel [I've] read in a long time . . . All That Is is Salter's version of a contemporary American 'War and Peace', with the war, World War II, in this instance, coming first . . . Reading and re- reading all this, I found myself in a state that Salter's work - as with the finest writers we know - often induces. You breathe deeply and your pulse races. The sentences, the scenes, the life, the life.'' --Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered''Striking . . .seamless . . . beautifully done. The experience of reading [All That Is] is akin to the panoramic view of flying, when aloft and moving fast. That is Salter's point . . . we drift through life, this novel suggests, without ever really getting to know those around us . . . Incisive.'' --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel''Exquisite. In widely admired novels, Salter s great subject has been the often highly charged relations between men and women. His new novel, All That Is, revisits that subject in a mature, unsentimental story of one man's restless search for love. That Salter is still producing work this appealing only two years from his ninetieth birthday makes it an even more impressive achievement . . . The connective tissue of the story is the series of romantic entanglements into which Bowman slips almost haphazardly. His relationships flourish and fade in a variety of sharply observed settings. Whether his setting is the Virginia horse country, a stylish dinner party in London, or a Seville café, Salter writes with authority. And in painting those scenes, he captures the angst of the privileged classes who seem to have all anyone could desire and yet long for something that lies just out of reach. Salter has long been lauded for his effortlessly beautiful prose and his deft characterization. Those talents are undiminished.'' --Minneapolis Star Tribune ''Salter's books are as good of those of post-war novelists like John Updike, Philip Roth, . . . His writing is as muscular, as clear, as accessible, as lively as those other writers . . . With his fantastic new novel [he is] clearly at the top of his game . . . All That Is contains a brilliant indictment of love, even as it revels in its sensual transports . . . It is perhaps not an accident that Salter would publish this very beautiful book at the age of eighty-eight. He senses the end in beginnings, applies the acquired wisdom of years, and the terrifying perspective of accumulated experiences, to the ordinary goings on the heart . . . It is this sense of being outside of one's own life, one's own loves, of experiencing or remembering an entire marriage or relationship as 'things glimpsed from a train' that gives Salter's work both its depth and its difficulty, its alarming insight and its grace. It's this that should make him, finally, what he truly is: a reader's writer.'' --Slate.com ''A legendary writer, Salter is the author of the erotic masterpiece A Sport and a Pastime, the virtually perfect novels Light Years and Solo Faces, as well as some of the finest short stories of the last century. Yet his literary persona is rather magisterial [and] he's too often been accorded the dubious distinction of a 'writer's writer.' In truth, he's the great American writer that most of America doesn't know it has produced . . . There are very few writers I would fly across the country to meet. Above them all is Salter. There is something about his prose, which blends lushness and classical restraint in the service of a wise, epicurean view of life, that calls me back to it. I have reread Salter more often than any other living author and have memorized lines and passages. In an era characterized by sex writing that defaults to irony and comic dysfunction, Salter restores that erotic experience to a kind of exalted, tantric level throughout his books (including this new one) that is simply hot . . . All That Is [is] the sweeping story of a book editor's experiences in love and war in the 1940s . . . The title strikes me as a kind of summational claim for the adequacy or the fullness of life as it's lived, as opposed to another world or some metaphysical longing or longing for elsewhere.'' --Interview

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